IP core freelancer ?

[goldcoin]

Is it possible to design IP cores at home and then sell them to whatever company is interested ?

[coppice]

Is it possible to design IP cores at home and then sell them to whatever company is interested ?

Its possible, but you may hit problems providing a level of support that big companies feel comfortable with.

[Scrts]

Is it possible to design IP cores at home and then sell them to whatever company is interested ?

Yep. I knew a guy, who wrote SATA controller and sold it twice for 200k$.

[CM800]

Thats the life! 

[julian1]

Is it possible to design IP cores at home and then sell them to whatever company is interested ?

Yep. I knew a guy, who wrote SATA controller and sold it twice for 200k$.

Any idea to who (without naming specific companies) and for what purpose - asic or fpga? Why not license from an established vendor - ie. xilinx?

[kakabouras]

Even large corporations like XILINX have extensively used the services of   independent  contractors. A very successful one that comes to mind  is Ray Andraka, a person well known to those who followed comp.dsp and comp.arch.fpga newsgroups.

[legacy]

I have recently completed a debug processor, and a RISC processor, so I still wonder who on this planet would like to buy it. May be Aliens are more accreditable as possible customers for the purchase (  )

In my opinion it's more probable you can sell consultancy (which means problem solving, at customer's campus) than already made products.

[westfw]

I'd think you'd get more business becoming an expert at integrating more standard-ish cores with standard-ish peripherals.  Surely there are people who want a MicroBlaze with 16 UARTs that have deep FIFOs and detect end-of-PPP packets (or something like that) that aren't quite up to putting it together themselves?  Probably more than are willing to risk going to a completely custom core...