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YYama23
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7 years ago

Licensing error in simulation. How can I fix it?

I'm trying to run a functional simulation on Quartus Prime Lite, but I get this error: Unable to checkout a license. Vsim is closing. ** Fatal: Invalid license environment. Application closing. Un...
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sstrell
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7 years ago

When you install Quartus, you have the option of installing the Starter edition or the regular edition. If you accidentally installed the regular edition, you would get this license issue. If you have the modelsim_ase directory as mentioned, then you installed the correct version and should check the environment variables.