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6 hours ago

How to generate a netlist when the design includes encrypted sources

I would like to ship my design to a customer as an encrypted netlist, however I am unable to create the netlist after a successful run, because my design includes encrypted RTL (unable to change this).

I am running the following command (after running synthesis and P&R):

quartus_eda my_project --simulation --format=vhdl --tool=modelsim -c my_project_revision

I get the following error:

Error (18580): Cannot generate netlist output files because the design includes encrypted source files: "/path/to/encrypted/rtl/file.vhdp"

I see here that this was planned to be possible in "future" Quartus Prime updates, but I am using 26.1 and no such update has been made.

I have also attempted to run the following command, with the exact same result:

quartus_eda my_project --resynthesis --tool=modelsim

Any help would be appreciated; perhaps this is plainly impossible, or perhaps there is some work-around. Thank you!

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