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13 years ago

Nios II license expiration

We've been using a license for Nios II since 2007. It has always allowed us to generate /s and /f versions of the CPU in SOPC Builder including 12.0sp2. We want to move to QSys, but we are seemingly unable to generate a licensed CPU in QSys with this license.

Does the Nios II license expire ? Or is there a Nios II version for QSys that needs to be licensed separately ?

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    Altera_Forum
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    13 years ago

    With QSYS, Nios licensing seems to be a little different :

    Nios II/e is free

    Nios II/s and /f are licensed.

    While with SOPCBuilder, all Nios II (/e /s and /f) are to be licensed (by fee or by buying an Altera NIOS kit)

    So, not 100% sure,

    yes

    and yes.