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Wait. How do chip manufacturers protect their designs?! I'm very curious. And thanks for the notes about CMOS, I'm very interested in chip design and $300 is r
by exikyut 8y ago
Wait. How do chip manufacturers protect their designs?! I'm very curious.
And thanks for the notes about CMOS, I'm very interested in chip design and $300 is rather affordable for hobbyist-level tinkering. Now just to have chip design tools take off... :)
- slededit 8y agoYou make the old design obsolete and therefore worthless. Combine that with strict trade secret and contractual protections and you are fairly close. But if someone wants to reverse engineer your chip they will.
- exikyut 8y agoI suddenly understand why there are so few open design tools and so much [trade] secrecy. Wow, this is kind of sad. I'm cynical any laws implemented now would truly protect though, considering the state the world seems to be in...
- pkaye 8y agoI used to work for a chip design company. They would get samples of competitive product and do competitive analysis and also see if they might be copying your technology. Once we had licensed a technology to another company for inclusion in specific products with some royalties. At some point they terminated that relationship saying they are no longer using the technology. We found that was not true a bit later and a lawsuit was initiated.