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Puzzle
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2 months ago

Quartus Lite 23.1 MAX 10 Encryption

Trying to work through configuring our MAX 10 device for encryption. Best I can tell so far I need a license to unlock this feature? I tried navigating through the Altera Self Servicing License Cente...
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Farabi_Altera
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2 months ago

Hello, 

 

You need to puchase Quartus Prime Standard Edition license to enable the MAX10 design security feature. Quartus Lite free edition will not have this feature. 

 

regards,
Farabi

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    Puzzle
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    2 months ago

    Ok, can you point me to where in the documentation it is described that paid software, such as Quartus Prime, is required in order to utilize security features? I am usually looking for this kind of stuff when selecting chips and I am surprised to hear about this.

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    Puzzle
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    2 months ago

    There is a similar post from years ago discussing the use of Quartus Lite and encryption with Max 10 devices where the Altera rep who responded pointed to a license to unlock this feature. I had chased this down last week and was unable to find any such option in the self-service licensing center. Not very keen on the pay-to-play model here if something has changed and I really do need to upgrade to the paid version of Quartus to unlock a feature present on the silicon we're paying for.