Andy Neil wrote:
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Paranoid, or what!?

<b>Can be sometimes. <grin> </b>

So what else are you going to do?
lay out a PCB with discrete logic?
The competition can then just slap it on a photocopier and rip off your "IP" !!

<b> Not a multilayer board, without a hell of a lot of effort. </b>

<b>..but, you can still make life hard for hardware reverse engineering in "discrete" even so, with PLDs for example you can lock em up so they are at least tricky to reverse engineer. The E5 external memory is a liability in this respect. You can't lock it at all.</b>

Is it really going to be worth them de-compiling the Triscrend config just to rip off your logic design?

<b>That's the point. They don't really need to decompile anything do they ? The PCB design has been simplified by using the E5. In a high volume project the temptation to copy rather than re-engineer will be stronger because its so easy </b>

Steve and Matt