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17 years ago

Creating and encrypting netlists

I am trying to create a design for a customer that is part netlist, that they cannot edit, investigate or reverse engineer and part VHDL. They bought an algorithm that integrates into one of our boar...
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16 years ago

Hi all

I'm reviving this thread since it is still relevant to me.

I've supplied another company a qxp file, but I now I want to add a secret key to it.

would it be possible for them to find out the value of this key?

of course they can locate the FSM that uses it, but will they be able to locate this constant?

I don't know if this is of any importance but I'm using quartus 8.1

thanks in advance.