Re: Evil Designers Guide to Copying Patents

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On 21 Mar 2007 22:14:36 -0700, "slebetman@xxxxxxxxx"
<slebetman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

Reverse engineering is almost never done by looking at schematics. For
one thing, the most important part is usually a black box in the form
of an ASIC. Reverse engineering is hard work. But like I mentioned
above, there are companies out there that does it for a living. If you
suspect that your competitor is stealing your IP you can simply send
that product to Taiwan to have it broken down and analysed.

There are several companies in the US and Canada that will produce a
schematic from an ASIC.

I've seen some neat IP used to hide/disguise elements in circuits to
slow down reverse engineering.

--
Keith
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