Design Security in Stratix III Devices

As FPGAs are increasingly used for critical system functions, protecting designs and intellectual property 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. This white paper details the security protection provided by the Stratix III design security solution.