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You might want to consider a new name - Zynq is Xilinx's flagship family of FPGA/ARM SoCs. With Xilinx being a pretty large corporation I'd be surprised if they
by q3k 7y ago
You might want to consider a new name - Zynq is Xilinx's flagship family of FPGA/ARM SoCs. With Xilinx being a pretty large corporation I'd be surprised if they don't immediately try to defend their trademark.
- zerzar 7y agothanks for the heads up, noted!
- user5994461 7y agoI want to add, having worked in electronics engineering before. This will be highlighted by any people (future customers) who has worked in a hardware software company. You should really consider renaming the product. Even if you don't want do, your product is going to loose the Google game, it will never popup when people will Google "Zynq", "Zynq planning", "Zynq trial", "Zynq API", etc... and if it does, Xilinx will sue you as soon as they notice. I've worked for a startup before, whose name was systematically getting auto corrected by Google (it was too close to another word and was interpreted as a typo) and it made it really hard for people to find it even when they were specifically looking for it. In retrospective, they should have changed name. Don't do the same mistake we did. Obviously that's not the feedback you were anticipating, so sorry about that. ^^
- zerzar 7y agothank you for the feedback! we are certainly not married to the name, but simply prioritizing the product/features ahead of it currently
- nikofeyn 7y agoi am curious. do people not google their product name ahead of time before the final name to get a sense of how searchable it will be?
- joshmn 7y agoIANAL but the idea of trademarks is to avoid consumer confusion. I don't think there's much consumer confusion between the name of a SoC and a startup offering to manage your calendar. They're in completely different industries. Now if you were Dell coming out with a Zynq line, that would be a different story.
- CamperBob2 7y agoI don't know. Given what FPGAs are commonly used for -- i.e., I/O -- using a .io domain for this seems potentially confusing/contentious. Lawyers are as hungry these days as anyone else. They need to pick a new name, or at least a new domain name. It's a terrible name for SEO, if for no other reason.
- jack12 7y agoSeems like there's a bit of room for confusion in the stuff surrounding the two. Would you guess "PYNQ - Python Productivity for ZYNQ" is a set of python bindings for this Zynq's API or for the FPGA? Especially seems like it could be related to this startup with its site being at pynq.io, at least until you see the photos of the pink PCBs :)
- user5994461 7y agoThey're both tech companies selling software solutions. It's quite similar. If I were Xilinx and reading this thread. I'd be preparing the lawyers already. Just my two cents.
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- FPGAhacker 7y agoMy first thought was Xilinx. I'll live.
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