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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 ...
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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.