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On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 06:50, Alex Harford wrote:

IP can be anything from soft cores to hard marcos, in software IP is a
software library for example. So in "hardware" I'd stick to a common term
"core" or "soft core". For cores that are free and open source, you can say
"free core" or "open core".

regards,
Damjan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rudolf Usselmann" <rudi@a...>
To: "Discussion list about free open source IP cores" <cores@o...>
Cc: <rms@g...>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: [oc] One issue about free hardware

> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 06:50, Alex Harford wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > I wonder what a good term would be for the things that are currently
described
> > as 'IP' in the hardware field.  Ie a common phrase is something like
'the memory
> > controller is someone else's IP'.  Maybe proprietary core vs free core?
>
> Thats actually a very good point. Perhaps this is a good
> time to create a new term.
>
> As I understand from Richards, post the words "intellectual"
> and "Property" are bad choices. So perhaps we should try to
> come up with a catchy name that can replace "IP".
>
> How about:
> 1) "Functional Block" or "FB" for short
> 2) one variant would be "Free Functional Block" or FFB
>
> OK, ok, I'm not being very creative this early in the
> morning, may be somebody else has some good ideas ?
>
> Regards,
> rudi
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