Computer software used as a development tool for use in the design of integrated circuits and system-on-chips; interconnect IP (intellectual property) technology in the nature of on-chip communications and network-on-chips, namely, protocol adapters, switching elements, data path converters, data traffic managers, and cache controllers for on-chip and inter-chip communication for use in the design of integrated circuits and system-on-chips; semiconductor IP (intellectual property) cores, integrated circuit cores in the nature of system-level protocol cores and network-interface-units for use in semiconductors, electronics, communications and computers; computer software, namely, software application design tools for use in design of integrated circuits and system-on-chips; electrical and electronic components, namely, semiconductors, electronic circuits, microcircuits, microcontrollers, memory circuits for system-on-chip devices; computer software for designing, testing and manufacture of system-on-chip devices; computer software that provides information for use as an aid in testing the functional correctness of the design of semiconductors and computer systems; software used at each stage of design of a very large scale integration hardware design to detect errors in the design and provide an objective measurement of how well the design has been tested; software for use in the design, production and control of integrated circuits; computer software used as a development tool for the design of integrated circuits and system-on-chips, namely, software for determining, predicting, reporting, and correcting timing closure issues