Is it common to re-verse engineer an integrated circuit ?

[Mike]

One question:

Is that legal ?
Yes.

Those smiling japanese faces at the end of the document are funnnnny.

There's not much funny about racism.

-- Mike --

 

[Nick Maclaren]

I can't tell you how many beginners I've seen build footprints for DB-style
connectors and figure that .1" is close enough (and on their grid) to the true
.109" spacing that they'd just go with it... (And with enough of a
ham-firsted approach, even a DB-25 can be made to fit in .1"-spaced holes!)

Standard field engineering. "Don't bend the tool - get a bigger
hammer."


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

 

[Skybuck Flying]

There's not much funny about racism.

Exactly racism is about hate

Bye,
Skybuck.

 

[Richard Tobin]

For example when installing microsoft windows it has a license which must be
agreed to,

it says stuff like:

"You may not reverse engineer, decompile, etc"

Just because a licence says something doesn't mean it has any legal
force. In the specific case of reverse engineering, many countries
have laws specifically allowing it for certain purposes (e.g. to create
interoperable products).

-- Richard

 

[Ben Bradley]

In comp.arch,sci.electronics.design, On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 08:14:03

One question:

Is that legal ?

I dunno, I suspect this one to be a copyright violation:

http://www.chipworks.com/gallery/Z-Waldo.asp

Did they really have the rights to reproduce an image of Waldo? I
wonder how many copies they made? If they get sued and have to pay a
per-copy royalty or penalty, it could get expensive...