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16 years ago

Quartus II and megacore license

Hi,

A customer of mine has different version of license for the Quartus II and megacores.

Quartus II: 2010.12 (support latest and before)

megacore: 2009.12 (support 9.1 and before)

Can he generate sof file in the following case?

(1) Creating a megacore with 9.1 and compile the design with 9.1sp1

(2) Creating a megacore with 9.1sp1 and compile the design with 9.1sp1

Thanks,

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    Altera_Forum
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    16 years ago

    good question.

    i had a similar problem and the first thing what my FAE did was to equalize them with the next renewal ....

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    (1) Creating a megacore with 9.1 and compile the design with 9.1sp1

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    Yes this should work some megacores like FIR copy the required files and add the relatives paths to the QIP file, so i have some FIRs for example that are updated last time with 9.0 and still compile with 9.1SP1 without a 9.0 installation.

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    (2) Creating a megacore with 9.1sp1 and compile the design with 9.1sp1

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    i think SP1 is a service pack (bug fixes) of an existing funktional version 9.1 so it should be part of the licence as 9.1 was released before 2009-12.

    but that is my opinion and experience with different software, a service pack is not a new release