Funny bit is that they'll know buy pretty much any crap. I've worked lately with a NAND controller IP that ticks /every single box/, has every single feature an

Funny bit is that they'll know buy pretty much any crap. I've worked lately with a NAND controller IP that ticks /every single box/, has every single feature and absolutely all the acronyms you can think of, and is the most useless piece of crp ever* to use. It's so bad that I wish there was a 'passthru' mode so let me talk to the NAND flash on GPIOs, because it's likely I'd have better performance anyway. But, that's a brand new IP bought by cadence to add to their list, and therefore it was also sub-licenced by some hardware designer somewhere (who has no idea what 'software' is) from the feature sheet alone. Then it lands on the poor unsuspecting person who needs to write the driver (me). So yes, that startup/feature/IP cycle is a very weird economy indeed.