How to protect application knowledge??

zy93 · ‎2003-10-17

Posted on October 18, 2003 at 06:45

zy93 · ‎2011-05-17

Posted on May 17, 2011 at 10:16

Hi friends:

Our supplier (drive company), which is good at drive control, and our company, which is good at application, cooperate to develop a new product using ST9. We have our own software respectively. But we havenâ€™t figure out how to protect our own knowledge. How to share the memory space? use an extra memory? â€¦ Could you please give me any advices?

alain239955 · ‎2011-05-17

Posted on May 17, 2011 at 10:16

That is a difficult task, having 2 teams working on the same µcontrol program and trying to protect source code...

In my opinion, things have to be dealt on two ways:

-A Contract describing what each party are going to put in the design

-Every thing that is sensitive can be compiled as libraries (binary) and used by the other team without having to deal with the source code.

Memory handling should not be an issue as libraries are relocatable.

Test & verification needs to be described somewhere and it is highly recommended nowadays to have an independant team performing product validation.

Cheers

Alain