| ??? 02/14/08 11:00 Read: times |
#150805 - SiLabs on "Intellectual Property Theft" Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Richard Nieto said:
Is there such a thing as code theft? Andy Neil said:
There most certainly is!
:-( More generally, it comes under "Intellectual Property Theft" or "IP Theft" and SiLabs specifically refer to it in their Knowledgebase article on Copying firmware from one MCU to another: In "Copying firmware from one MCU to another", Silicon Labs said:
To protect your intellectual property and prevent such copying, you can lock the code memory by writing to the lock byte(s). Please refer to the device data sheet for security options. Also see the article "Locking Code Memory" in the "Related Articles" section.
http://portal.knowledgebase.net/display/2...=0.7604944 and, In "Locking Code Memory", Silicon Labs said: If you wish to protect the code memory and prevent viewing or copying of proprietaty code and constants, you should lock the memory...
http://portal.knowledgebase.net/display/2...=0.5952112 |
