IP Intellectual Property. A broad category of materials that are legally recognized as proprietary to an organization. The process of planning and implementing the location of IC devices within a chip design. The sequence of functions performed by hardware or software. Hardware logic is made up of circuits that perform an operation.
Software logic is the sequence of instructions in a program.
Modeling Duplicating certain functions of a chip to ensure that they operate properly. Optimization Using the computer to achieve the most efficient design of a product. In the past, design engineers performed a combination of manual and automated methods to accomplish design optimization. They used EDA tools, determined what components needed work and then redrew the object manually. Today, EDA software tightly integrated with the design program can perform the analysis and automatically redraw the object.