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11 years ago

Licensing of IP cores

HI,

I am working on Quatrus II tool and I want to use several megafuntions in my project. However I am confused about the licensing of the cores.

Is it that megafunctions are availble for free and megacores require licensing and pricing.

Please help.

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    Altera_Forum
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    HI,

    I am working on Quatrus II tool and I want to use several megafuntions in my project. However I am confused about the licensing of the cores.

    Is it that megafunctions are availble for free and megacores require licensing and pricing.

    Please help.

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    It depends on which megafunction or megacore that you are looking at. Generally the protocol specific IP would require license. Simpler module ie transceiver PHYs are free.
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    Altera_Forum
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    Hi Nagakiran,

    You can check into the specific megacore's user guide or documentation. It should tell you if license if required or not.