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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

Hi All

Attatched is my Tcl script for checking a floating network license. You should manually edit the server ip address and port number in the file.

Insert the following lines before your Tcl command to start Analysis&Synthesis and Assembler.

source check_license.txt

wait_for_license A00A_B00B

This script will check the availability of the license feature again and again, until the feature is no longer occupied. So the compilation process wait for the license.