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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

It would be nice if the .qxp's could be encrypted, basically a button that says this can't be looked at in Altera back-end tools. It wouldn't need a license or anything, it would just do some of the stuff that's already done with the licensed IP. The IP could still be compiled by anyone who had the .qxp file, so it doesn't prevent re-use, it just puts up more roadblocks for reverse engineering. I filed something, but please file an SR too. It won't help today, but might be something down the road...