OpenCollector.org has announced a paper [pdf] on the clean room design practice for reverse engineering hardware. "Wade D. Peterson of Silicore (the people who created the free Wishbone SOC architecture) has written a major new paper on clean room design practice, full of detail on the legal aspects of reverse engineering and practical methods for separating copyright and patent governed aspects of a design, essential for creating open and interoperable designs."

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