Partial Microcontroller Chip Cloning

Fully Microcontroller cloning practice is too obvious, and it is easy to be discovered by original designer. Therefore, many capable enterprises do not adopt this method, Instead, when copying microcontroller, make some necessary or unnecessary modifications to the protected layout design, making it difficult for people to judge the copying of the protected layout design. This is called Partial Microcontroller Chip Cloning.

Partial Microcontroller Chip Cloning

Partial Microcontroller Chip Cloning

Partial Microcontroller Chip Cloning of the layout design is actually imitation. This type of infringement is relatively intimate and difficult to detect, and once it is discovered, it is also very difficult to identify it, not as easy to identify as a complete IC Cloning.

There are two reasons for this: First, in the layout design, there are some rules that are followed together, and inevitably have some identical places in each layout design. Second, they are limited by the integrated circuit layout design function, as a result of that, creation of Microcontroller layer design made by different designer may be basically similar. This increases the difficulty of identifying such a Microcontroller Chip Cloning.