Microsoft: Trust but verify for IP handoff: IP validation at scale across design views and revisions

Microsoft’s AI and high-performance compute silicon programs integrate large volumes of IP delivered in multiple interdependent views such as Liberty, RTL, physical layout, and packaging artifacts. Multi view inconsistencies and unintended revision changes can evade local scripts and surface late during SoC integration and signoff, creating debug churn and schedule risk. Microsoft adopted a trust but verify methodology that turns IP quality into a repeatable, auditable gate before handoff to SOC consumers. The approach combines format aware integrity checks across individual views with cross view consistency validation and revision delta analysis to spotlight unexpected changes while limiting review noise. This session covers how Microsoft applies the shift-left methodology to enhance IP validation, improve handoff reliability, and accelerate SoC project timelines by identifying IP issues earlier in the process.