Reply 100 of 229, by maxtherabbit
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wrote:No, I think it is. Because 8051s are off-the-shelf parts, only the firmware is proprietary, and once you have extracted the firm […]
wrote:That's the point, isn't it? It's completely irrelevant *why* it's proprietary.
No, I think it is.
Because 8051s are off-the-shelf parts, only the firmware is proprietary, and once you have extracted the firmware (which people have), you can flash it into other off-the-shelf 8051s (or make a clean-room reimplementation).
The PAS is different, as it has its own ASICs. They are not standard chips with firmware in them. They are custom chips.
So you'd have to reverse-engineer the whole ASICs and reimplement them in whatever technology is suitable (perhaps FPGA). That's an entirely different ballgame. Software vs hardware.Not to say that cloning a PAS isn't possible, just saying it's not comparable to cloning an SB. It's more complicated.
Yep