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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...
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    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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Migry
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3 years ago

Thank you for the confirmation.

I can't help but wonder if intel acquired the Quartus source code, when they acquired Altera?

Not that I expect Intel to modify and re-release it in any way!

I simply hope that Intel will continue to "support" (make available for download + documentation) these older Altera products, since they are still relevant today, not only for hobbiests like myself, but also for companies who support old products using these extremely useful Altera parts.

Just FYI, it is still possible to buy Cyclone II FPGA dev boards from China, and they still are reasonably cheap. They are perfect for getting into the world of FPGA design and learning to code in Verilog/VHDL. "Intel executives" please be aware that not everyone can afford $500 for a genuine Intel FPGA development board !

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