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19 years ago

Cyclone II starter development kit

Hi, I am planning to buy a cyclone II starter development kit and I have a very basic question about it as I am a newbie. I downloaded Quartus 7.1 from Altera's website and when I opened SOPC...
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19 years ago

Hi Sony,

You're right. You will be able to generate your Nios II based systems using SOPC Builder and Quartus II, but the output will be time-limited.sof unless you have a subscription license for Nios II CPU. If you have the license for Nios II CPU, then the output files (sof/pof) will not be time-limited.

I think that Altera does not provide subscription license for Quartus II and Nios II with the starter kits, but provides web-edition only. So, you'll need to have subscription license for Nios II for generating non time-limited sof/pof files. You could use Quartus II web-edition and Nios II subscription license to be able to generate non-time-limited sof/pof files.

Regards,

BD