Protecting trade secrets during the design and configuration of an integrated circuit semiconductor design

摘要

A system and method for facilitating the design process of an integrated circuits (IC) is described. The system and method utilizes a plurality of repositories, rules engines and design and verification tools to analyze the workload and automatically produce a hardened GDSII description or other representation of the IC. Synthesizable RTL is securely maintained on a server in a data center while providing designers graphical access to customizable IP block by way of a network portal.