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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

floating license failure leads to dangerous time-limited Nios

We have a floating license. Occasionally, the licensing server will get screwed up and forget to release a license, or sometimes, all of our licenses are legitimately in use. Either way, failure to retrieve a license results in Quartus happily continuing its compile, but generating a time-limited version of a Nios core. Under no circumstances do I want a time-limited core. I would rather that Quartus would just halt compiling, or better yet, put up a dialog box asking if it should wait for a free license to clear, then sit there and poll for a free license every fifteen seconds or so.

Is there an option I can set that will halt compilation on license failure? Or maybe an option that will prevent the time-limited core from ever being generated?

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    Altera_Forum
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    14 years ago

    In Quartus: Assignments -> Settings -> Compilation Process Settings -> more Settings... -> Disable OpenCore Plus hardware evaluation -> ON.

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    14 years ago

    There is also a menu option in the License setup window to ask Quartus to wait for a valid license, but IIRC it only works in one of the steps while building an image and it can still produce a time limited .sof later on. It doesn't work during Sopc builder generation either.