Why have companies found it hard to implement a design reuse infrastructure?
Even though the EDA industry has been addressing the issue of design reuse for several years, it’s still a new area for many companies. In some engineering organizations, for example, it’s all but impossible for design teams to find out what internal IP already is at their disposal. In others, there is a fundamental distrust of any intellectual property “not invented here” — whether that IP is from a third party or from another team in the same organization. Still other groups don’t want to make the initial effort. The challenge for those who manage design efforts will be to understand both the good news and bad news about design reuse. The bad news is that learning how to design for reuse initially will cost engineering time and may cut into schedules. But the good news that this investment in time ultimately will shorten the time required to do subsequent designs.
