Quartus II 10.1 web edition dropped support for Virtual Pins, it seems

Maybe Altera now and then surprises someone to get them hooked :lol:

Seriously, Monday night I installed the WebEdition 10.1 using the Altera Installer program on the download page of the Subscription Edition. Once that started I changed the wanted installation into Web Editiopn, and let the thing do its job (and watched Top Gear or something). Yesterday I did a pin-study on a project with DDR2 and PCIe IP and to my surprise it didn't choke on the virtual pins, here is the Flow Summary:

Flow Status	Successful - Tue Dec 07 18:29:52 2010
Quartus II Version	10.1 Build 153 11/29/2010 SJ Web Edition
Total combinational functions	2,951 / 21,280 ( 14 % )
Dedicated logic registers	1,928 / 21,280 ( 9 % )	
Revision Name	rr4gx15
Top-level Entity Name	rr4gx15
Family	Cyclone IV GX
Device	EP4CGX22BF14I7
Timing Models	Preliminary
Total logic elements	3,296 / 21,280 ( 15 % )
Total registers	0
Total pins	61 / 81 ( 75 % )
Total virtual pins	671
Total memory bits	8,512 / 774,144 ( 1 % )
Embedded Multiplier 9-bit elements	0 / 80 ( 0 % )
Total GXB Receiver Channel PCS	1 / 2 ( 50 % )
Total GXB Receiver Channel PMA	1 / 2 ( 50 % )
Total GXB Transmitter Channel PCS	1 / 2 ( 50 % )
Total GXB Transmitter Channel PMA	1 / 2 ( 50 % )
Total PLLs	2 / 3 ( 67 % )

I must mention that I have an expired Subscription License File for QII9.1 active, but the Installer did that all on its own. From the other side it will only use one CPU core, but time we can make free, virtual pins is a different story.

I hope Altera isn't watching, and taking my virtual pins back :)