Intel Agilex® 7 Device Security User Guide

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Date 7/07/2023
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5.4.1. Anti-Tamper Responses

You enable physical anti-tamper by selecting a response from the Anti-tamper response: dropdown list on the Assignments > Device > Device and Pin Options > Security > Anti-Tamper tab. By default, the anti-tamper response is disabled.

Five categories of anti-tamper response are available. When you select your desired response, the options to enable one or more detection methods are enabled.
Figure 15. Available Anti-Tamper Response Options

The corresponding assignment in the Quartus Prime settings .qsf file is the following:

set_global_assignment -name ANTI_TAMPER_RESPONSE "NOTIFICATION DEVICE WIPE DEVICE LOCK AND ZEROIZATION"

When you enable an anti-tamper response, you may choose two available SDM dedicated I/O pins to output the tamper event detection and response status using the Assignments > Device > Device and Pin Options > Configuration > Configuration Pin Options window.

Figure 16. Available SDM dedicated I/O Pins for Tamper Event Detection
You may also make the following pin assignments in the settings file:
set_global_assignment -name USE_TAMPER_DETECT SDM_IO15
set_global_assignment -name ANTI_TAMPER_RESPONSE_FAILED SDM_IO16