CPC G06F 21/76 (2013.01) | 20 Claims |
1. A method comprising:
providing a pattern detector circuit in a security chip, wherein the pattern detector circuit monitors accesses of a plurality of configuration registers, each of the plurality of configuration registers having a corresponding address;
in response to receiving from a host a predefined sequence of accesses of the plurality of configuration registers for one or more operations to the plurality of configuration registers, determining, by a processing circuit in the pattern detector circuit, a value indicative of a current version of a netlist for the security chip; and
making the determined value available to be obtained by a read operation by the host at a specific configuration register address.
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