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12 years ago

Arria V GX Starter Kit - Quartus II DKE? One year license?

Hi guys, I want to start using higher density FPGAs for academic research. Currently I am looking at the Arria V GX Starter Kit. Especially since it is able half the price of the Kintex-7 evalu...
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11 years ago

Hi,

I have some problem.

I purchased Arria V Starter Kit last year and the licence has expired on December 31 2013.

As I understand, once my license expires, I won't be able to upgrade my Quartus, but Quartus still works and support my Device (5VGXBB3H4F35C5NES)

I downloaded Quartus 13.1 last year when it was released and installed it before the license expired. Everything was great.

Now, after some time not using it, when I reopen

I have 3 issues:

1) My quartus doesn't work any more. It always roll back to Web licence and I can't compile for my Arria V starter kit anymore.

2) Yesterday I tried to download a new license from self-service center. The expired date moved to 3rd June and I was able to compile for my Arria V device. However, the Arria V ES is not in the device list, i have to specify the device using text editor and modifying .qsf file.

3) After one day, i open my quartus again and it again asks for license. Why is it so?

Please help and Thank you

Jeff