Andy Cuffe wrote:
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:08:14 GMT, propman wrote:
Andy Cuffe wrote in
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FWIW, it says on that site to contact local sales rep for datasheets.
They also have a "Find a local sales contact" hyperlink on that page.
No one at Silicon Image, or their sales reps is willing to give me a
data sheet. Does anyone have any other ideas?
Andy Cuffe
Don't know if you can get just the data sheet but you might want to check
out the following site:
http://www.netcomponents.com/results...=SII9993CTG100
&SUBMIT1=Search
Thanks for the tip, but that's a paid web site and I doubt they have a
full data sheet. It seems like it's impossible to find. Silicon
Image got back to me talking about lawyers and NDAs.
It looks like it's now illegal to know how the things you own work...
Andy Cuffe
We can thank our Asian friends for this. A friend of mine who worked at
NS told me of an incident where a Chinese company copied the design of
at least 3 NS IC's by acquiring their data sheets and engineering docs.
They were signal processing ICs. In the ongoing investigation, NS
found out that the information came from their online data sheets. He
would not go into details because the investigation is still going on
and related legal wrangling...
I am looking for the fallout from this being that it may infact be
almost impossible to get datasheets, or ones that don't go into the
architecture of the chips.
Interesting, we set up foundries, educate, and get out lunch taken away!
John