We have a very good and expensive design that we want to give freely, as an NGC file, with our generic FPGA products. How can we make the design work only on our board.
Our current technology is S3 and the user needs to be able to compile their project with our NGC file, but on OUR fpga product.
I thought of keeping a key in an external serial memory, but this is futile if the netlist cost $100K.
Again, the points are:
Very expensive and useful NGC file Want to avoid reverse engineer and copy to other FPGA stations What should the best solution be.
Well if we had some die ID, we could hardwired it to the netlist, so that it checks that everytime it runs.
Any suggestion from you ppl?
Merry xmas and a happy new year 2006 to all of you! JA