STOP! Are You Gambling On Your Memory IP?
Clive Maxfield, EETimes
3/3/2011 7:16 PM EST
Introduction
Kilopass and Sidense both license one-time programmable (OTP) memory intellectual property (IP). These companies are currently in litigation with each other with regard to allegations of patent infringement.
Why should you be interested? Well, if you are building a new chip and you are licensing memory IP, you really need to have a high level of confidence that the IP you are licensing does not violate someone else's patents; otherwise you might find yourself in court at some stage.
To be honest, the legal part of all of this is something of a morass that will make your brain ache and your eyes water, but there's a lot of other stuff here that I think you will find to be of interest, including the underlying technology, the back story as to how all of this came about, and the ins-and-outs of the patent and patent litigation process. So, keeping all of this in mind, let us plunge into the fray with gusto and abandon...
To read the full article, click here
Related Semiconductor IP
- ReRAM NVM in DB HiTek 130nm BCD
- UFS 5.0 Host Controller IP
- PDM Receiver/PDM-to-PCM Converter
- Voltage and Temperature Sensor with integrated ADC - GlobalFoundries® 22FDX®
- 8MHz / 40MHz Pierce Oscillator - X-FAB XT018-0.18µm
Related Articles
- OTP for DCP Key Storage
- Antifuse memory IP fuels low-power designs
- OTP with a ROM Conversion Option Provides Flexibility and Cost Savings for On-Chip Microcode Storage
- Executive Opinion: Successful Memory IP Development Depends on GEP
Latest Articles
- An FPGA-Based SoC Architecture with a RISC-V Controller for Energy-Efficient Temporal-Coding Spiking Neural Networks
- Enabling RISC-V Vector Code Generation in MLIR through Custom xDSL Lowerings
- A Scalable Open-Source QEC System with Sub-Microsecond Decoding-Feedback Latency
- SNAP-V: A RISC-V SoC with Configurable Neuromorphic Acceleration for Small-Scale Spiking Neural Networks
- An FPGA Implementation of Displacement Vector Search for Intra Pattern Copy in JPEG XS