Sonics Sues Arteris
By Ed Sperling
Sonics filed a patent infringement suit involving seven different patents against rival Arteris yesterday in U.S. District Court in San Jose.
The patents date back to 1998—five years before Arteris was founded—and range from end-to-end connectivity to scheduling of requests and decomposing and verifying configurable hardware. This is the first major action in the network on chip (NoC) arena, signaling that the market is really beginning to take hold as complexity and re-configurability become critical to SoC design.
Sonics is seeking a permanent injunction, treble damages and attorneys’ fees.
Arteris today said it does not believe it needs to take a license for any Sonics patent, claiming it has 31 international patents of its own. Arteris CEO Charlie Janac called it “disappointing” that Sonics is looking to slow down Arteris’ momentum through legal action rather than “competing fairly” in the market.
