Here now, don't confuse discussion of the value of the IMS library
with that of the rest of the IMS IP. I have no idea how to evaluate
the 'box of parts' that IMS owns. We were specifically talking
about the standard cell library, which I contend, at $500k would
be a reasonable figure. If you can't differentiate because of
shortcomings in your understanding then perhaps you ought to
pay more attention to what is being written, because my intention
has been to educate you all on this business. I have been as
informative as you have allowed yourself to understand.
The rest of the IP, as Larry Huang points out, is pretty specific
to microprocessors, and unless you have a customer who needs that
sort of design it is difficult to evaluate, because no one would
just sit down and design all those circuits in the abstract. One
can design a standard cell library without a customer because the
objective parameters are well known to lots of different design
groups. All you really need to do is answer a couple of questions
relating to whether the library should emphasize speed, density, or
richness of function. The rest of the process is cookbook. Not an
opinion, but FACT.
Frank |
