Update, 2:45 p.m.: Lita’s camp tells me all the material on this album, including “Rotten to the Core,” is actually old, but previously unreleased. So I guess that explains why the song sounds so very ...

In Part 1 of my article about IP core development, I explored the basic ideas and processes involved in selecting an IP core vendor. We looked into how to reduce risk, how to write the Lore (the ...