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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

They will synthesize down the downstream logic. So a constant 1 will not show up in the logic, it would just get removed and whatever it drove would have logic reductions based on that. The constant will not be obvious by any means, but it is probably "do-able" if you really know what you're doing and had lots of time.