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10/18/05 12:48
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#102556 - IP Distribution and Protection
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Yes, our IP Distribution and Business Model is PFE from Xilinx...I'm a Xilinx user from back in the 2000-series days and I always appreciated the ability to play with solutions before buying them.

We are making multiply IP Protection options available:

(1) The first method is to turn your analog IP block into a Spice macromodel. This helps the user (sims run faster) and keeps the implementation details hidden. We have scripts that will then report MSSA utilization so that a user of macromodels will still know how many analog tiles (OpAmps, R, C,...) are still available.

(2) We can also provide scrambled Spice, Verilog, and VHDL netslists to obfuscate the implementation details.

(3) We are looking at VHDL-analog but this requires that our customers also have a simulator that can handle it so we aren't overly excited about this distribution method.

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Mixed Signal 8051 Platform            01/01/70 00:00      
   ah well.....            01/01/70 00:00      
   although            01/01/70 00:00      
      IP Ownership and Pricing            01/01/70 00:00      
         Interesting            01/01/70 00:00      
            IP Distribution and Protection            01/01/70 00:00      
   An example...            01/01/70 00:00      
      TL052AM OpAmp Performance?...            01/01/70 00:00      
   The Competition?            01/01/70 00:00      
      Triad versus Competition            01/01/70 00:00      
      PSoC?            01/01/70 00:00      
         Triad Analog Performance versus PSoC            01/01/70 00:00      

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