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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/...
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21 years ago

The other gotcha is that if you'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've been bitten by this before. Just make sure your SOF filename doesn't contain words something like "foo_time_limited.sof" in the Quartus programmer.