Nios II Full license for DE2 Board

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originally posted by friedv@Feb 11 2007, 12:58 PM

hello, i'm just beginnin to work with the altera cyclone and nios. is it possible to buy a nios ii lic for use on this board?

i do not intend to make commercial products, but for my (hobbyist) application (autonomous robots) i cannot live with the nios time limitation.

where could i buy such a license and what would be the approx. cost?

thx, fried

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I have a DE1 board (stripped down DE2). It comes with a .pof file for a NIOS II system that is not time-limited. The Cyclone board I bought earlier did also. However, the catch is that you can not add your own custom SOPC builder components (or modify SOPC configuration at all) because when you re-generate the system, then compile in Quartus II, you will get a time-limited .sof file that will not allow you to make a .pof file.

I have the same issue as you (single individual, not working for company). I don&#39;t remember where I found this info, but as I recall after surfing many hours, I came across information that said you can get the NIOS II license for $500. I think the license may only last a year though ??? (I am not sure about that or not.) If so, as long as your design is completed in a year, you can still program your chip(s) with the last .pof file you created when the license was valid.

Hope this helps.

I do feel price info from Altera is confusing.

According to my request record in 2006, Nios II cpu core price is CDN$465 one time payment no royalty.

http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif Yes. Altera licensing and pricing is very confusing.

I now bought a Nios II Dev Kit Cyclone Edition from them (Digikey, ~750€), a license for Nios is included (unlimited) and also a lic for Quartus II (full ed, this for one year only). After one year, no more updates, but the Quartus II software itself should continue to run as is. I don&#39;t know if there will be restrictions to the functionality (as in the Web Ed.).

Here in Germany, the Altera distributors didn&#39;t even answer my mails concerning licensing alternatives, it seems that Xilinx would have been a better choice?

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originally posted by legendbb@Feb 22 2007, 08:35 PM

i do feel price info from altera is confusing.

according to my request record in 2006, nios ii cpu core price is cdn$465 one time payment no royalty.

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