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Altera_Forum
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8 years agoFPGA Cyclone V
Hello, Actually, I have a project with an FPGA, I installed Quartus II 12.1 Subscription Edition without license from the original CD. I try to do my simple application and everything was good u...
Altera_Forum
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8 years agoThe device type (N suffix) does not matter here. What DOES matter is you installed the subscription edition and did not provide a valid license file.
You should install the FREE (Lite) version of Quartus (selection available here, by device family or by version): https://www.altera.com/downloads/download-center.html 12.1 is pretty old, unless you need to use such an old version going with the most recent (17.1) might be a better choice when starting from scratch.