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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

Create Netlist

Hi, I want to create a netlist for my design for vhdl sources are not readable by customer. How can I do this? Then, if I want to simulate this netlist. Do I simply instantiate my componen...
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17 years ago

How unreadable do you need the project to be? any netlist you generate will still be customer readable in the RTL or Technology Map viewer (depending on netlist level) so the customer could reverse engineer your design. Often, your net/register names will be preserved also which may make this process easier.

The only solution: do not provide customers with a partial compile, or have a good NDA in place.