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21 years ago

How to know NiosII IDE version information?

My NiosII IDE help menu only shows "version:1.0.0, Build:316". How do i know whether it is a full edition? And what's the difference between the three NIOS II package?

nios_final.zip

nios2_1.0_eval.exe

nios2_ucos2.exe

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    My NiosII IDE help menu only shows "version:1.0.0, Build:316". How do i know whether it is a full edition? And what&#39;s the difference between the three NIOS II package?

    nios_final.zip

    nios2_1.0_eval.exe

    nios2_ucos2.exe[/b]

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    OK, I&#39;m only familiar with what&#39;s on CD&#39;s, but I&#39;ll take a stab at this:

    nios_final.zip - this would be the shipping full cost Nios II 1.0. What is included in the Nios II dev kits.

    nios2_1.0_eval.exe - this would be what went out on the IP sampler CD&#39;s with Quartus 4.1 (???) - that&#39;s a guess. I don&#39;t know where you&#39;re getting the files. If that is where you got this. Or from the web as an eval edition of Nios, then ... Here&#39;s what it says on this forum in the link to download it...

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    This edition is the same as the full edition mailed to upgrade customers except that it contains neither the MicroC/OS-II operating system code, nor the GNU source tree.[/b]

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    nios2_ucos2.exe - no idea. Where do you see this file?

    Does this help. The IDE is the same version. Only the files it sees (which come from the Nios component area) are different.
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    Then how to know whether the programming files and flash programming files

    generated are time_limited?
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    Quartus tells you.

    Also, if you don&#39;t have a license, they will be time limited.