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KCMurphy
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5 years ago
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ModelSim-AE not accepting license file.

Recently, I purchased a new Verilog license for ModelSim-AE. Apparently I had a very old one, and this caused the licensing people some administrative issues, which have now seem to have been resolv...
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    AR_A_Intel
    5 years ago

    HI Sir

    Thanks for your update. Upon checking with Intel IT team, Mentor engineering and Marketing team. Regrettably, the Dongle support has been disallowed for the OEM-Editions from v2019_3. Dongles are specifically disallowed in Exhibit 1 of the VAR Agreement.

    According to the recent updated agreement (Jan 2021 to Jan 2024), We dropped Altera USB dongle (GUARD_ID=) support from v2019_3 Mentor Licensing release.

    The Modelsim-AE 2021.1 Edition license will require a unique identifier on the target workstation, like an Ethernet address.

    Please accept my apologies for the inconvenience and difficulty that you have.


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KCMurphy
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5 years ago

No.

I can get ancient versions of Modelsim-PE working, using a FlexID-9 dongle, not that this helps much as they don't support much of SV.

Currently I am trying to use the Altera T-series UltraPro dongle that DOES work for QPP 21.2. It occurs to me that MS-AE might not support the T-series dongles, but I don't feel like burning a rehost just to test.

I'd prefer to use a dongle rather than a MAC address as I may be required to do work on the customer's premises.