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Altera_Forum
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10 years ago

licensing question for student

Hello everyone,

I am a computer engineering student and I want to purchase an FPGA board so get some additional experience outside the labs. I was thinking of getting the Cyclone V GX Starter Kit, or the DE1-SOC board. The problem I have is that i am not too familiar with licensing on these products.

I know that i would need to get a web edition of Quartus II.

I think there is a free model-sim version that i can use.

Would there be other licenses that I would need to worry about like IP licenses or SOC licenses (in the case of the DE1-SOC board)?

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    Altera_Forum
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    10 years ago

    The Web-Edition is all you need to use Cyclone V devices. There will be limitations as to the Altera IP avaiable for you to use. However, if you buy either of those kits they will come with any licenses required to allow you to use all features of the development kit.

    The SoC board features a hard processor which requires a separate license for software development. However, if you buy this kit it will come with instructions for obtaining your DS-5 Altera Edition license (probably valid for a year) to allow you to develop software and use the ARM core of the Cyclone V included with that kit.

    Cheers,

    Alex