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obruendl
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5 months ago

Questa Starter license missing FEATURE/INCREMENT lines”

I just tried to generate a new Questa Starter license through the Self Licensing Center but the license file I got is corrupted (it does not contain the "increment" statement and hence it actually does not contain a license).

I tried generating the license several times but I always got such a corrputed file. You can find the corrupted file attached.

The problems seems to apply for Questa Starter only. Other free features (e.g. Agilex-5 support) could be licensed correctly (contained an increment statement).

How can I generate a Questa Starter License?

I am maintaining the Open Logic FPGA Standard Library - also officially supporting Altera. So I'd hope there should be some mutual interest of fixing the issue.

Programmable Logic Device

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  • Joel_Aaron_Seely's avatar
    Joel_Aaron_Seely
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    5 months ago

    Could you try again and let me know if you get the same results?  I just tried generating a Quartus evaluation license (it includes a QuestaSim Starter license) through the SSLC and got a valid license back.  I'm trying to determine if this is a glitch or we need to dig deeper.  Thanks.  -Joel-

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      obruendl
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      5 months ago

      Yesterday I tried it 4 times - and all generated licenses were consistently invalid.

      I tried again today, now it works. So my problems is fixed but probably you want to check what lead to the glitch.

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        Joel_Aaron_Seely
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        5 months ago

        Thanks for checking.  Yes, we're looking into what might have been the root cause of the issue.  But I'm glad to know you're no longer stuck.