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15 years ago

Licensed IP & LogicLock or Design Partitions?

We've purchased some 3rd Party IP that we are incorporating into our design. This IP requires a license that is keyed to one particular machine. Other machines on our network have the Altera Quartu...
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15 years ago

your best bet is to get a floating license which would allow anyone on the network to compile using the IP. as far as i know, even exported netlists such as .qxp files contain licensing information

you may be working against the 3rd party or Altera license agreement, so you may ask the vendor what they recommend in your situation

another solution may be setting up the machine with the fixed license for batch compiles where your users can submit jobs to the machine, but this will take some up front work