Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) designers strive to ensure their IP can be utilized by the widest possible range of applications to ensure maximum return on their engineering investment. However, the common older practice of supporting a bus-centric protocol as an IP core’s native interface ultimately limits the market into which an IP core can subsequently be utilized or sold. Fortunately, there is now an optimized and fully-supported interface approach available that utilizes the benefits of the OCP SOCKET.
