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13 years ago

Is there a way to encrypt design under Quartus?

Hi guys, I have done a design under Quartus II. I am wondering is there a way to encrypt it? I intend to let others do testing on it, but I dont want them to see the source code. Thanks.
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13 years ago

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Could you shed some light on how to use NativeLink to generate netlists for 3rd-party tools? Thanks.

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I rather not post the steps here on how you can use NativeLink, as they are already been posted by Altera. Check out Altera's documentation (or online help) on NativeLink. First link on Google:

http://www.altera.com/support/examples/ncsim/exm-ncsim-native-link.html

This example is actually for ModelSim not ncSim like stated, but still it's pretty easy to use NativeLink with another simulator (e.g. ncsim or vcs) if you understand how to do it with ModelSim.

-daniel