ESD Alliance Hosts SEMI License Server Certification Protocol Webinar

We’re hosting a webinar on the new SEMI License Server Certification Protocol and invite you to attend. The event will be held Wednesday, September 27, from 10-11:30am PDT. Registration is free of charge.

The webinar will address the challenges anyone responsible for a company’s software licensing practices and infrastructure faces. If that’s you, you will learn how use of the protocol will strengthen your license management system against unauthorized license usage (piracy).

Bob Smith, Executive Director of the ESD Alliance, and Sashi Subramanian, Cadence’s Senior Group Director, Licensing, Downloads and Release Operations, and Chair of the ESD Alliance’s License Management and Anti-Piracy Committee, are the presenters. Bob will describe the impact of software piracy on both software vendors and users, while Sashi will give an overview of the protocol and its scope. He will explain how it addresses software piracy by reducing the unauthorized use of software licenses by assuring that access to licensed software can only be issued by authorized servers and how it can be integrated into a software license management system. Sashi will also offer several use cases and review how the protocol can be applied in different environments. A Q&A session will conclude the webinar.

The SEMI License Server Certification Protocol is the result of an EDA company joint development partnership managed by the ESD Alliance. It was developed to minimize the unauthorized use of licensed software by closing a loophole often exploited to enable unauthorized usage. The protocol is not EDA-specific and is applicable to any high-value software solutions that are controlled via a license management system.

SEMI will begin offering licenses to the protocol later this year. We will follow up with more details as they become available.

About The ESD Alliance

Our License Management and Anti-Piracy Committee isn’t our only technical committee. Our Export Committee represents member companies with a unified voice in Washington, D.C., on export licensing and compliance issues and works closely with SEMI’s policy and advocacy office.  Our Operating System (OS) Interoperability Committee is a forum for OS vendors to present and update member companies on their plans. The committee publishes a roadmap for recommended platform support for all member companies and sets expectations with users for supported platforms, helping reduce member company resources and costs to support a wider range of platforms.

I encourage you to learn more about the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community, and recommend your company become a member if it is not one already. As well as our technical committees, we represent members in the electronic system and semiconductor design ecosystem as the marketing advocate and address economic issues affecting the entire industry. We act as the central voice to communicate and promote the value of the semiconductor design ecosystem as a vital component of the global electronics industry.

If your company is already a SEMI member, consider becoming a member of the ESD Alliance by submitting a short application with no extra fee. If your company is not a SEMI member yet, it can apply at the same time to join the ESD Alliance. Again, no extra fee is associated with being a part of the ESD Alliance. Contact me at pcohen@semi.org or Bob Smith at bsmith@semi.org if you have questions.

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