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Altera_Forum
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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 have been in this very position, and spoken to altera about it.

Apparetly the only way to go about encrypting at this level would be to join the Altera IP development program or whatever it is (the thing that provides PCI cores and the like) but then your IP becomes available to the world.

Basically there is no way to actually encrypt the QXP file as is, you'll just have to hope they dont try and reverse engineer it (though, if its a fairly involved design, that would take some serious resource that they could probably have used to develop their own version in the first place!)