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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 bas...
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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.