Licensing Troubles

Hi,

we have a problem here or some misunderstanding on the Altera Licensing concept: We have used the CRC Compiler in a design and now we cannot generate programming files because of the license missing.

When opening up the License Setup Dialog I see the license type to be "Full Version", expiration 2011.10, Host ID NIC and I see a bunch of licensed Megacore Functions but the CRC Compiler is not included.

I am quite confused, hopefully someone can answer me these questions:

- What kind of license do we need to generate programming files with the CRC Compiler?

- Where do we obtain that license and how much will it cost (just an estimation)?

- Does obtaining such a license take as long time as obtaining the full license (3 weeks)? Because we simply do not have three weeks in our situation.

- How can I avoid using restricted Megacore functions? FPGA primitives such as DDR or BRAM elements do not need a license, I did not see a real difference in the MegaWizard plugin manager between such a function and the CRC compiler.

Really, I am a bit p***ed off at the moment, we paid 4k dollars for that full license and now there are still troubles with it.

Best regards,

flintstone