New Contributor
Super ContributorSorry for the wait. The Quartus tool development team is looking into this and plans to implement it in a future Quartus release (may subject to change based on priority/resources).
I am checking with them to see if there is a way to hide the elaboration message in the current Quartus Standard.
If that is not possible with the current quartus, I would suggest have a combination of a license agreement between the IP provider and their customer, and encrypting the IP to prevent IP theft.
Please keep in mind that any work involving our developer team may take some time, ranging from a few days to a few weeks, depending on the complexity of the issue.
Regards,
Richard Tan
New ContributorHi Richard,
Just to clarify, the IP source is already encrypted with ampcrypt, and while the design input text files are not readable, once the design is built, Quartus Standard 17.0 reveals the names of modules, signals, etc., in timing analyzer, signal top node finder, and even in the technology map viewer, which is definitely a concern. An end user being able to see the technology map view of the IP core would be able to get a good understanding of how the encrypted IP works even if they can't see/modify the source code.
Please let me know if there is anything I could be missing to prevent Quartus from revealing information from the encrypted files.
Thanks!
