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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

Customizing with encrypted netlists with licensed IP cores

What I would like to do is:

Develop base/core functionality of an Altera FPGA and make available

to the user the ability to add custom functionality

to the processing pipeline.

Our base/core needs to include a piece or two of licensed IP(not cheap)

and want to be able to pass an encrypted netlist (ie) of this "core"

to the user for them to be able to design and build their custom

VHDL with the "core" _without_ having to pay for the licensed IP

but rather just having to pay for Quartus (need subscription ver in this case)

Does this seem feasible/do-able?

How would we go about this?

Thanks,

Cos

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    Altera_Forum
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    14 years ago

    The license agreements usually don't allow you to redistribute the core to someone else, so I would suggest to read carefully the agreement first. If it does allow you to do this, then maybe you should contact the IP provider to see how they can help you do that.

    But I'm afraid in most cases your user will have to pay for its own license for those cores.