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Indication of SIP Silicon intellectual property Quality Measures Framework, among IP providers and IC designers (users).
 * HKSTP, which is set up by the Hong Kong government, set up a project, to develop a technical framework for SIP (Silicon intellectual property) quality measures and evaluation based on QIP metric.
 * IC designers developed their IC design, and the design can be reused by other IC designers.
 * Other IC designers do not know the quality of the design of such providers of IP cores (IP providers).
 * HKSTP can act as a judge, to evaluate the quality of IP cores of various IP providers, based on the QIP metric.
 * Other IP designers can know and choose their IP provider, based on the information provided by the third party, HKSTP.