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Does "IP" in this article mean "intellectual property"?
by akkartik 3y ago
Does "IP" in this article mean "intellectual property"?
- gaudat 3y agoYes, "source code for chips / custom hardware" as a product is mostly referred as IPs. This includes HDL/RTL, netlists and GDS layout for a specific process, in increasing order of closeness to physical reality. Tangentially related, it is interesting to note that layouts and masks for manufacturing custom chips are not really copyrightable, so there is a thing named "mask rights" and (M) instead of (C) for them.
- IshKebab 3y agoYeah they're talking about hardware designs. Chip designers can buy "IP" from vendors for stuff they don't want to implement themselves, e.g. PCIe interfaces, embedded CPUs, etc. It's delivered as SystemVerilog code, probably obfuscated and maybe encrypted (yeah the encryption is theoretically worthless but I guess it is a sort of honesty / deniability thing).
- RealityVoid 3y agoIt does talk about Intellectual Property. But, apparently their chips are multiple cores on a fabric that talk over ethernet: https://youtu.be/32CRYenTcdw?t=1560 https://youtu.be/32CRYenTcdw?t=1560 They do this at the chip level apparently? Pretty nifty!