Current and future SOC designs will use IP cores as basic building blocks. These IP cores have to fulfill defined quality characteristics. Conformance to these characteristics has to be checked automatically, as the increase in complexity makes manual checks infeasible. This article introduces IP quality aspects and describes the IP qualification platform which is able to check quality characteristics of digital soft IP. In order to distribute qualified IP it is essential to introduce an IP exchange process. More than 80% time and resource savings are expected through automated IP delivery which is based on a general IP transfer format.