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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Getting floating license

Hi, Assuming one starts two compilations at same time where only one floating license is available. Does the Quartus II wait one process until the license becomes available, or just end with li...
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16 years ago

Usually it stops, but if it can't get the license at one specific moment (synthesis I think) it will continue but generate a time limited .sof file, with a simple warning buried somewhere in the console messages. It happened to me a few times and it can get very frustrating because you don't realise immediately that the .sof file hasn't been updated, and you are still trying to download the old one.