Altera

As FPGAs are increasingly used for critical system functions, protecting designs and intellectual property (IP) implemented inside FPGAs is becoming more important. Altera Stratix III devices are the first high-density and high-performance FPGAs to use the advanced encryption standard (AES) with both non-volatile and volatile key programming to protect designs against copying, reverse engineering, and tampering. To make the Stratix III design security solution more secure and to protect the AES key, many security features have been implemented. The solution has been reviewed by external security consultants during the design phase and improvements have been made based on their feedback. This white paper details the security protection provided by the Stratix III design security solution.