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BHall16
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3 years ago

Can someone please explain the new one part-number Quartus Licensing?

Greetings all, My organization has 8 developers. 3 are currently using Quartus Prime Pro and the other 5 are using Quartus Standard. Customer Advisory ADV2127 announces the "replacement of all...
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AR_A_Intel
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3 years ago

Hi Sir

Welcome to INTEL forum. Yes, your understanding is correct. SW-QUARTUS-SE-FIX has been discontinued and replace by SW-ONE-QUARTUS. It’s a single ordering part number and the single OPN will have ALL the features of both PRO and Standard.

It is a flexibility for customer to choose Standard or Pro at the same cost. Customers can choose Float or Fixed in the Self-Service Licensing Center.


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    BHall16
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    3 years ago

    Greetings AR_A_Intel,

    Thanks much for the reply, but I remain confused.

    You write: "It is a flexibility for customer to choose Standard or Pro at the same cost. Customers can choose Float or Fixed in the Self-Service Licensing Center."

    That suggests to me that when I buy a seat of that SW-ONE-QUARTUS part number, my developer, when he or she sets up Quartus, he or she has to pick between Standard or Pro?

    Then, if you go pack to my original post, there is a screen-grab from your catalog which shows some features are only available in Standard, and others only available in Pro. Does that mean for each developer who needs features from both Standard and Pro I now have to buy TWO copies of that SW-ONE-QUARTUS part number?

    Or, for each SW-ONE-QUARTUS part number, can the developer install BOTH Pro and Standard?

    This is still very confusing.

    Thanks much,

    Ben

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      Joel_Aaron_Seely
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      3 years ago

      The answer that was given below is incorrect. The entire point of the new SW-ONE-QUARTUS is to give you all the Intel Quartus Software tools for the same price. You can download both Pro and Standard versions and use them interchangeably with the license you purchased. So in the case given above, you have 3 developers using Quartus Pro and 5 developers using Quartus Standard. But let's say one of the 5 using Quartus Standard needs to start working on a device supported only in pro. No problem. The SW-ONE-QUARTUS license will allow for that. They would just need to download the version of Quartus Pro that they want to use and install it and then point the license manager to the SW-ONE-QUARTUS license and they would be able to now use Quartus Pro. (And if they wanted to move back to Quartus Standard, they could do that as well. The only thing they wouldn't be able to do is open both Quartus Standard and Quartus Pro at the same time using the same license.)

      • AR_A_Intel's avatar
        AR_A_Intel
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        3 years ago

        Hi @Joel_Aaron_Seely

        Thanks for the elaboration of the SW-ONE-QUARTUS usage, and the scenario I mentioned was referring to if the user would like to open both Quartus PE & SE at the same time, then it will require to purchase 2 licenses. Apologies for the confusion.