Hong Kong Venture Capital Pool 19961998

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Semiconductor Intellectual Property trading

• Presented by
• Oliver Pun PhD
• IC design centre, SIP trading centre
• Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks
  Corporation
• at
• IC Hong Kong 2004
• on
• 5th November 2004

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Semiconductor Intellectual Property trading

• Background of SIP
• GCSIPTC Great China Semiconductor Intellectual
  Property Trading Centre
• SIP trading centre in HKSTP
• Business, Legal, Technical
• Status

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Background of SIP

• The trend of IC design
• 0.18um?0.13um?90nm?65nm
• Cell based design, the early 90
• SIP based design, the late 90
• Soft SIP and hard SIP
• Register Transfer Language, RTL
• Graphical Design System II (GDSII)

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Background of SIP

• If there is no SIP
• 100K gate count will take 5 man year
• 10M gate count will take 500 man year
• Time to market
• Time to volume
• Minimum risk

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Background of SIP

• Infrastructure of buying and selling IC
• Well established
• Infrastructure for SIP
• Inevitable
• Major concern
• Potential business opportunities in China

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Background of SIP

• For SIP business
• Focused knowledge based industries
• Standard interfaces VSIA
• SIP verification methodology VSIA
• Trading platform GCSIPTC

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GCSIPTC

• An MOU was signed on 16th Oct 2003
• CBSIA, CASPA, HKSTP, TSOCC
• SIP trading centre
• Technical, Legal, Business
• The project implementation organizations
• CASPA, HKUST, HKSTP,
• The SIP trading service organization
• HKSTP

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SIP trading centre at HKSTPfeature

• Global collaboration network
• Simple and fair exchange of SIP
• Affordable price
• Legal know-how to SME
• A standard trading environment
• transact efficiently and conveniently
• Sub licensing one to many

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SIP trading centre at HKSTPprogress

• Phase 1
• Developing the GCSIPTC Promoting domestic SIP to
  the world, and visa versa
• Customer data base, IP catalogue and IP list
  sharing
• 71 and CSIP framework Share IP
• Phase 2
• Reuse standard and qualification
• Comply with international standard
• Phase 3
• Business, Legal, Technical
• SIP trading Platform transaction

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SIP trading centre in HKSTPbenefits

• For SIP Buyer
• Reduced price
• Technical support
• Legal know-how

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SIP trading centre in HKSTPbenefit

• For SIP Provider
• Access to a larger customer base, especially
  customers in China
• Access security is provided by the secured Data
  Centre at HKSTP network security committee
• Protected by the well-established IP law
• Reduce costs in avoiding negotiation with
  individual customers

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Business frame work

• Advantages in HK
• International business hub
• International financial centre
• Freest Economy financial exit
• Free and open society
• Business and financial know-how

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Legal aspect

• Advantages in HK
• Creditable legal framework
• British common law, enforceable IP
• HKIAC low-cost legal arbitration
• Well-established IP laws
• update arbitration laws
• Digital rights
• Tagging and water marking

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Technical aspect

• Reusability
• plug and play SIP integration
• Verification
• Certification, authentication
• VSIA standard

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Technical aspect

• Quality IP due diligence process
• A grading system
• Technical support (the resource)
• Achievement (prototype, silicon proven, mass
  production)
• Deliverable (documentation)
• Verification and functional checks (test vector)
• Design style (EDA tools, integration)

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Status

• Quality rating grading
• Standard environment
• Efficiently and conveniently
• Data Base and IP Catalogue Exchange
• SIP Trading Alliance SIPAC in Korea

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SIP trading platform
Korea
SIP vendors
SIPAC
IP data base and catalogue
IP data base and catalogue
documentation
documentation
Functional checks
Functional checks
synchronization
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China
Chinese Taipei
CBSIA
TSOCC
Korea
SIPAC
Customer data base

• IP Trading Centre at HKSTP
• Business
• Technical Support
• Legal Know-How

SIP vendors
IP data base and catalogue
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