Note Air 3C

[ottischwenk]

Originally Posted by Quoth

The FPGA design is just a file in flash memory (or sometimes loaded from a disk file of a driver on Mac/Windows/Linux to a peripheral with an FPGA.

Distributed somewhere, possibly encrypted, between 1,400 MB of data - enjoy

At power off there is no configuration in an FPGA.

That's exactly what matters.
In contrast, an ASIC analysis is very simple and requires little effort.