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10 years ago

On Nios II IP licensing and IDE

Dear Experts, I am relatively new to Altera FPGAs (and the Nios II soft-core). The design I am now responsible for includes a Cyclone III FPGA on which a Nios II processor is instantiated. I re...
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Thank you for replying. So when exactly would I need to rebuild the Quartus project?

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When you change anything in Quartus or Qsys. So, when you change the processor or peripherals structure.

If you only change the software you don't need to. I mean if you are only modifing the C code in Nios IDE, the Quartus project is not involved and you don't need any futher license.