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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

I think so. It wouldn't be too easy, but should be do-able. When providing a .qxp, it's a binary, but after place-and-route the design isn't encrypted or anything. They could look in the Technology Map Viewer to see what logic is in there(it's not intuitive at all, but again, do-able). If you really need something encrypted, try and get in touch with Altera. They and their IP providers do have a way of encrypting IP(often source) so that it is unreadable in all phase of the fit.