BRAZIL IP Network

Brazil-IP is a collaborative
effort of Brazilian universities to
create a distributed network of
integrated circuit (IC) design centers
capable of delivering semiconductor
Intellectual Property (IP cores).
The mission of the Brazil-IP effort is
twofold. In the short run, it seeks to
increase the country's level of expertise in
designing world-class IC's by exposing the
participating university students to real-world
design practices and evaluation. In the long-run, it
will help bring about the conditions necessary to
establish local Design Houses (DH's) capable of
competing in the international IP market.