Well codified interface allows horizontal specialization in the global semiconductor industry. This technical note describes the current chain of integrated circuits, and the motivation for the re-use of intellectual property blocks in modern IC designs. It briefly examines ARM Limited as an example of a specialist provider of IP, and looks at the evolution to complete the system-on-chip and system-in-package, so that students can study the evolution of the industry structure in the accompanying case of System-on-Chip 2008: .: Global Unichip Corporation "Hide
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