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13 years ago

Licensing Scheme, Please Clarify or Eliminate it.

Hello everyone, I don't know if this forum is monitored regularly by Altera... I've been trying to implement a couple of systems with CycloneII FPGA's, both for my personal projects and for my ...
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13 years ago

The Cyclone II devices can be programmed using Quartus web edition = $0.

The simple version of the NIOS II core is free. There are other CPU options on OpenCores that are free.

The basic IP cores are all free, i.e., the FPGA logic that is vendor-optimized, eg., counters, RAM, IOE element features.

What IP do you need above-and-beyond these?

For pricing, you need to talk to an Arrow FAE, or one of the other distributors for Altera devices.

Cheers,

Dave