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San22
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3 years ago
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Installation of Questa*-Intel® FPGA Starter Edition on Ubuntu or Redhat on Vmware or virtual box

Hi Team, I came across Questa Intel FPGA Started Edition for Linux version in the downloads page. Requirement: 1) Install this Questa Intel FPGA Starter Edition on Linux Platform i.e., on Red...
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    San22
    3 years ago

    Hi Yukai,

    For your query, "# of Seats = 0" is the default value provided and User must enter "# of Seats" as "1" to generate the license file.

    Click Generate after entering the value and license file will be sent.

    Thanks,
    San22

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3 years ago

Hi SyafieqS,


Thanks for the reply. Installed the Simulator and tried creating License from SSLC. I am awaiting for the License confirmation mail to move to creating license step.

Question : If we want to generate license file to be installed on virtual machine, what information should be provided in the license page from the VM machine. The license page asks for NIC ID/ Host ID/ Guard ID. What I know is if we provide Host ID of VM , the license asks for Float license instead of Fixed license. Should I still go ahead with float license?

Below are the things tried, Please correct if you find any issues here.

1. The Questa intel FPGA simulator is installed on VM with OS as Ubuntu.

2. Now the ENV variable MTI_HOME is set to the installation directory

export MTI_HOME <installation_dir>/questa_fse/bin:$PATH

3. Now compiled a sample code using vlog top.v where the compile is successful.

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Questa Intel Starter FPGA Edition-64 vlog 2022.1 Compiler 2022.01
vlog top.v
-- Compiling module test

Top level modules:
test

===============

4. Now when we tried to invoke vsim command, we see

% vsim test
This is because no license file available. Now I tried to generate license file using the Intel FPGA SSLC Registration.
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** Fatal: Failed to initialize licensing environment. License environment not set correctly.
Unable to checkout a license. Vsim is closing.
** Error: Invalid license environment. Application closing.

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Thanks,

San22

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    San22
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    3 years ago

    Hi SyafieqS,

    The link you have provided earlier has information on download and licensing only.

    It does not mention about the settings needs to be done for the simulator after installed on linux platform and also no information about Questa simulator being used on Virtual machines.

    After repeated trials, I figured out how to generate the license file for the Ubuntu installed on Virtual machine.

    The Simulator is now working properly with out any issues with the license generated on this machine i.e., vsim is now showing up the GUI. No License checkout error anymore.

    Thanks,

    San22