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Home → About Us → Business Approach Business ApproachThe overall objective is to offer to you, our customer, the most cost effective commercial interface and business approach. The following provides a general guidelines for the terms that are most often adopted.
Contract Design Service professional analog, digital and rf design under contract to foundries, system’s houses, and end-users business approach depends on nature of task and nature of the Specification options are fixed price with milestone payments, or per diem charges payable monthly. Royalties will apply only if previous databases or design knowledge is included in the deliverables Turn-key Design Service
specify, develop circuitry, and layout IC. The end-point may be a database tape or delivery of tested silicon if the end-point is a database tape, the business model is similar to that for design services, though a royalty agreement may apply if previously developed expertise is included. If the end-point is a completed IC product with a guaranteed volume profile, an up-front NRE commitment will be charged in addition to a product selling price IP License providing Intellectual Property to systems houses or foundries business approach depends on the amount of compatibility between any existing database and the preferred foundry technology. In general a reconfiguration charge will be made to reflect the amount of conversion work to be carried out, together with either an up-front license charge for single or multiple use or a royalty payment agreement. Software Product Sales
software products are generally sold under a distribution agreement with the author. software will be sold to a given list price for the product and for the annual maintenance
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