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Migry's avatar
Migry
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3 years ago
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End of 2022 - Licence Expiry warning

I am a maker hobbiest and I have completed projects on old Altera parts such as the Cyclone FPGA family and the MAX II CPLD family. I compile RTL using Quartus II 64-Bit Version 13.0.1 Build 232 06...
  • AR_A_Intel's avatar
    AR_A_Intel
    3 years ago

    Hello,

    From my understanding, the Quartus Lite/web Edition software requires no license, so it will continue working even after maintenance subscription expires. If there is a subscription error message appear. This is the normal behavior of the Lite/web Edition software and you can ignore the message. Please continue with the compilations and report to us back if the compilation is not successful with error message in Quartus.

    Hope this information is helpful.


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sstrell
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3 years ago

License files are version-agnostic. They are just for a yearly subscription.

But the old web edition didn't require a license. Neither does the current Lite edition (basically the same as the web edition). If you click "Renew Software" or "Web License Update" what happens?

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    Migry
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    3 years ago

    "Renew Software" tries to bring up Internet Explorer, which now defaults to Microsoft Edge, which goes to a generic Intel FPGA web page => no help whatsoever.

    "Web Licence Update" brings up the following

     

    None of the options are helpful.

    Perhaps it simply is that the software does not need a licence for the web pack.

    FWIW, I did find an old license file from 2018, which was in FlexLM format. I have no re-collection when or how it was generated.