English
Process Detector (For DVFS and monitoring process variation)
Identify your real IP
By Richard Nass, Embedded.com
(02/29/08, 04:26:00 PM EST)
You can't guard your intellectual property if you don't know what it is.
In a meeting with TI executives, theme recurring theme was "guard your IP, assuming you know what your IP is." The question that came up more than once was, "what exactly is your IP." The strongest opinions came from TI Principal Fellow Gene Franz and Chief DSP Architect Ray Simar.
One strong argument is that your IP is the logic that you put down into silicon that makes a system operate at levels that best the competition. But a very compelling argument can be made for the IP that's in the minds of your design team. The real answer is likely that it's both, and both need to be guarded very closely, but we know that the "guarding" method for each is quite different.
(02/29/08, 04:26:00 PM EST)
You can't guard your intellectual property if you don't know what it is.
In a meeting with TI executives, theme recurring theme was "guard your IP, assuming you know what your IP is." The question that came up more than once was, "what exactly is your IP." The strongest opinions came from TI Principal Fellow Gene Franz and Chief DSP Architect Ray Simar.
One strong argument is that your IP is the logic that you put down into silicon that makes a system operate at levels that best the competition. But a very compelling argument can be made for the IP that's in the minds of your design team. The real answer is likely that it's both, and both need to be guarded very closely, but we know that the "guarding" method for each is quite different.
|
E-mail This Article | 
|
|
Printer-Friendly Page |
Related Articles
- Three Major Inflection Points for Sourcing Bluetooth Intellectual Property
- Design Rights Management of Intellectual Property (IP) Cores in SoPC designs
- Silicon Intellectual Property - Delivering value to customers
- Intellectual property security: A challenge for embedded systems developers
- Ensuring Successful Third Party Intellectual Property (IP) Integration
New Articles
- Why RISC-V is a viable option for safety-critical applications
- Dimensioning in 3D space: Object Volumetric Measurement by Leveraging Depth Camera-based Reconstruction on NVIDIA Edge devices
- What is JESD204B? Quick summary of the standard
- Post-Quantum Cryptography - Securing Semiconductors in a Post-Quantum World
- Analysis and Summary on Clock Generator Circuits and PLL Design
Most Popular
- System Verilog Assertions Simplified
- Enhancing VLSI Design Efficiency: Tackling Congestion and Shorts with Practical Approaches and PnR Tool (ICC2)
- System Verilog Macro: A Powerful Feature for Design Verification Projects
- Method for Booting ARM Based Multi-Core SoCs
- An Outline of the Semiconductor Chip Design Flow