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mdidomenico3
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1 year ago

Intel Ampcrypt Module Hierarchy

Hello, I am using ampcrypt to encrypt a design for a third party user, and have found that while the encrypted file cannot be viewed in Quartus, as plain text, or in the RTL viewer tool, when runnin...
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mdidomenico3
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11 months ago

Thanks for all the information. Just to summarize, there's no way to prevent a user from seeing entity/node names within the encrypted module in signal tap, technology viewer and timing analyzer?

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RichardT_altera
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10 months ago

Yes. There is no foolproof way to completely hide entity/node names within an encrypted module from tools like Signal Tap, Technology Viewer, and Timing Analyzer in Quartus. While encryption protects the RTL source code, Quartus must still synthesize the design.

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Richard Tan