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21 years ago

Licensing Problem

I have just received the new license from my app. eng for the NIOS II processor core

(Vendor code: 0x6AF7 and 0x6AF8 product 0x00A2) I installed it, it now shows up

in the window "Licensed AMPP/MegaCore functions" in Quartis under options, etc.

However, this still does not fix my original problem which is:

when I configure the FPGA (Stratix) I get the small window saying:

OpenCore Plus Status

Click Cancel to stop using OpenCore Plus IP

Time remaining: unlimited

Which if I click kills the download.

My question is do I need a number of codes/products that make up the NIOS II ?

Am I missing a step in the license installation? Please help. Thanks. http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif

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    21 years ago

    affluent,

    If you previously generated a core with an OCP license, you&#39;ll need to regenerate the core (in SOPC Builder) and then compile in Quartus II in order to generate non-OCPed RTL code.

    If you&#39;re using Linux, there have been issues obtaining licenses which will be fixed in the next version.

    IMO, it&#39;s a _pain_ that you have to keep the OCP window open (in Quartus II), but it shouldn&#39;t prevent you from getting work done. You&#39;ve just got to keep this open and, perhaps, reprogram the FPGA every now and then.

    Best of luck and Best Regards,

    - slacker
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    21 years ago

    The other gotcha is that if you&#39;ve created a time-limited SOF in your Quartus project directory and then add a license and generate

    a normal non-time-limited SOF, the Quartus programmer might choose the time-limited SOF instead of the more recent non-time-limited SOF.

    I&#39;ve been bitten by this before. Just make sure your SOF filename doesn&#39;t contain words something like "foo_time_limited.sof" in the Quartus programmer.
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    21 years ago

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    originally posted by james@Apr 10 2005, 12:28 AM

    the other gotcha is that if you&#39;ve created a time-limited sof in your quartus project directory and then add a license and generate

    a normal non-time-limited sof, the quartus programmer might choose the time-limited sof instead of the more recent non-time-limited sof.

    i&#39;ve been bitten by this before. just make sure your sof filename doesn&#39;t contain words something like "foo_time_limited.sof" in the quartus programmer.

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    That was it !!! Thanks, I just deleted the "time_limited.sof" and it works not. The sw should

    automatically delete the time_limited.sof don&#39;t you think?

    Thanks again. http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif
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    21 years ago

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    originally posted by slacker@Apr 8 2005, 10:46 PM

    imo, it&#39;s a _pain_ that you have to keep the ocp window open (in quartus ii), but it shouldn&#39;t prevent you from getting work done. you&#39;ve just got to keep this open and, perhaps, reprogram the fpga every now and then.

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    I&#39;m not sure this helps, but an alternative way to open &#39;quartus 2 programmer&#39; is by launching it from tools menu in nios ide, when in debug perspective.

    Marco