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17 years ago

How to maximize license utilization?

I my team, 4 FPGA design engineers are sharing 1 license server for Quartus II. We often run into license conflict. Most of the time we can resolve this problem by just announcing 'I am compiling'. B...
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17 years ago

I came up with an idea.

If the Analysis & Synthesis failed, the .map.rpt file will be checked and if message like "Warning : * current license *" is found, the full compilation will be restarted. The batch file is writen to try many times until a successful compilation is achieved.

Actually, this is a mimic of what we do to check license conflict manually and visually.

It is not a direct way to check license occupancy. Does anyone know hwo to probe the license occupancy directly?