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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Ip megafunction license

I have Quartus II, i have installed the evaluation trial 30 days. But in my project there are limitations with eda netlist generation and the pof file for the programmation of the FPGA (DE2 ALTE...
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16 years ago

"open core plus time limited" is not an error, it is just informational that you do not have a valid license and therefor can't produce files that can be used for production purposes.

you can test and run your application as long as there is a connection between quartus and your fpga. maybe via your usb blaster. it is possible to cheat a bit and let the target fpga run up to 1 hour without a connection between quartus and fpga.

if you enable 30day trial, there is no license file needed

so it is normal that you won't be able to produce all the netlists or some output files. thats available with a valid license file.

(this behavioral is very common, lots of other software act like this, you can almost do everything except of saving or printing)

you can create a complete nios II project with all the sopc features, but you won't be able to create a file you can use to programm epcs or cfi to get a system that runs imediatly after power on. you need a valid license for this.