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The whole idea of reusable intellectual property (IP) is that the original designer does the work and you don't have to repeat it. If that's true for the design part of IP creation, it certainly should hold for the 70 percent of total engineering effort that goes into verification. After all, they wouldn't license it to you if it didn't work, right?
But anecdotal evidence suggests that most experienced design teams will spend at least as much time on verification of existing IP as they will on newly created blocks. Just...