MIPS-Verified™
SoC designers in the embedded market are faced with the challenge of building differentiated products in a timely fashion and at highly competitive consumer price points. Paramount to a design’s success is an established and robust ecosystem of tools and software available to support a design from start to finish. Also increasingly critical in SoC design is the use and reuse of verified intellectual property. Without a robust design environment or quality intellectual property, SoC designers and OEMs run the risk of missing critical budget targets and market introductions—potentially sentencing a design to failure.
The new MIPS-Verified™ program underscores MIPS Technologies’ commitment to the highest levels of quality, integrity and dependability across the entire line of MIPS products. The MIPS-Verified brand represents the culmination of more than a decade of leadership, innovation and dedication in the embedded processor IP market, and now serves as an exclusive trademark to officially authenticate the company’s latest intellectual property (IP) worldwide.
The MIPS-Verified brand helps designers clearly distinguish high-quality, dependable products and well-supported interoperable solutions that are exclusively compatible with the MIPS® Ecosystem. The MIPS-Verified trademark will be used in association with all products based on the processor cores developed from the MIPS32® and MIPS64® (Release 2) architecture. While testing and authentication practices have always been an integral part of MIPS Technologies’ business model, MIPS Technologies is now committed to delivering the highest quality embedded IP. This mark offers licensees 100% authenticated MIPS Technologies’ products for all their designs and is based on the most sophisticated verification compliance standards available. Designs can be assured that all cores and architecture implementations marked by the MIPS-Verified brand ensure the IP has been rigorously tested—leveraging years of unparalleled design verification practices.
The verification technology is regularly refined and enhanced by a team of engineers to test every new release and every new feature added to the MIPS® architecture. It comprises hundreds of tests for validating individual functions of a design, not only with architectural compliance but also in authenticating a product throughout the design cycle.
Core and architecture licensees are provided with the necessary tests appropriate to their licensed technology and can easily self-certify once tests are completed. Since all cores from MIPS Technologies are pre-verified before release, licensees are re-verifying that their core remains compliant. Undisclosed mechanisms in the submission process ensure that all design verification is rigorous and complete.
For any questions or additional information on the specific usage of the MIPS-Verified mark, contact info@mips.com.
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