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Hi, Does altera have an attribute thay you can set in your vhdl code that will stop someone viewing the RTL and Technology views. I know Xilinx has a few attribute that can be set, that hides a...
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Honored ContributorI believe the .vqm writer is being discontinued for newer families, so that won't be an option going forward. It's also pretty susceptible to reverse-engineering since it's a structural verilog(you could argue everything is, depending how much time they want to put into it).
Another option is to export your design as a partition. The user could just import that into their design. It's a little more "strict" on how it needs to be hooked up since it won't go through synthesis again, but the .qxp file is a binary that stores information in the langauge of Quartus's database, not a known format like verilog. They both have their pros and cons.
