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8 years ago

IP licenses: how do they work?

I am doing contract work for another company. The design uses a Cyclone V part and will have a NIOS cpu and its associated peripherals. I have a fully licensed, node locked version of Quartus ...
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8 years ago

The other way around is to have a floating license. This will be installed on a central server. Anyone can then use the tools and IPs licensed just by setting up the license to point to the floating license server

ex.. LM_LICENSE_FILE = port@IP (1234@192.168.1.10) . Of course, this will work only if you're in their network or have VPN access to their internal network.