SEMI and EDA Industry Leaders Unite to Combat Software Piracy
MILPITAS, CALIF. –– August 4, 2020 –– SEMI, Cadence, Mentor, a Siemens Business, and Synopsys today announced plans to jointly develop an industry-standard protocol to combat electronic design automation (EDA) software piracy, a growing and costly problem for software vendors and their users. Under the partnership, the organizations will develop the SEMI Server Certification Protocol, a standard that will provide strong protection against piracy by defining how servers can be uniquely identified.
Currently, most software license management systems rely on a license manager that runs on a server typically identified by a machine identifier. … Read More → "SEMI and EDA Industry Leaders Unite to Combat Software Piracy"

