In IP business, what kind of code is provided to customer ?

[k621219]

I have developed and provided camera ISP core IP.
I have provided the obfuscated RTL code to customer.
But there are some customer to want original RTL source code.
I have provided the RTL code by obfuscation tool to protect our IP core.

In IP business, what kind of code is provided to customer ?

 

[ads_ee]

Usually I've seen or gotten IP that was encrypted with something like secureip or what Modelsim used before that. If the code was unencypted the vendor would typically charge significantly more for the IP. For some reason 10x seems to keep coming to mind. This was usually only available for some sort of site licensed perpetual use license for the core, which was given under NDA to us. YMMV

 

[yadavvlsi]

IP is given as obfuscated RTL code or as synthesized netlist. IP vendor never provides source RTL code. It is to protect your IP. If you give source code, they can modify or give it to some one. I have never seen IP vendor providing source RTL.