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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

Why has quartus stopped generating a time-limited sof file?

My Quartus license expires this month (2013.02) but appears to be valid at the moment. But all of a sudden, today, it will not generate a time-limited sof file because I'm using the Triple Speed Ethe...
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Altera_Forum
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9 years ago

Hello,

I've ran into this similar problem today when I deleted my time limited sof file and Quartus simply didn't generate it again. "Disable OpenCore Plus Evaluation" is disabled (therefore opencore plus evaluation is enabled) and absolutely no warnings are emitted by the assembler.

I've found out that after a subtle licence update in my lab, Quartus stopped generating time limited sof and a full-featured sof is now generated without time limiting. It took me weeks to realise that the time limited sof file that I've been using is extremely outdated and everything new is on a .sof file that I didn't knew it existed.

I'm necrobumping this thread for a good cause, for anyone that might run into this similar problem related to licence update.
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PManw
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6 years ago

I've just run into the same issue using Quartus Prime Pro 19.4. I deleted the time limited sof file and Quartus won't generate new ones. Did anyone come to a conclusion as to why?