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14 years ago

DE3, DE4 and Arria II GX - Version of Quartus II

Hi, in another post I was told that I need the Subscription Edition for what I need to do. So I serched the Altera website and the price of the Subscription Edition is $2995,00. A little expensive I ...
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14 years ago

My Arria II GX kit came with a one-year subscription. For all intents and purposes, it is the same as the paid subscription, but you do not get licenses to the IP that is included in the paid subscription (DDR2/3, NIOS, and such...) - you can only evaluate them as you would with the web edition. Once this license expires, you will not be able to renew it though. I believe they did this because the web edition lacks support for the mid/high-end FPGAs such as Arria II GX.

Hope this helps...