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msark
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4 years ago

Quartus Lite Modelsim RTL simulation fails with MGLS_LICENSE_FILE

FPGA team, We tried to run Quartus Lite Modelsim_ase versions 19.1 and 18.1 on CentOS 7 Linux machines and it keeps failing with license not found. Error: Can't launch ModelSim-Altera Simulatio...
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RichardT_altera
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4 years ago

Hi @msark

As discussed in the meeting, Modelsim-Intel FPGA Edition will be replaced by Questa-Intel FPGA Edition Software (including Starter Edition) starting from Intel Quartus Pro Edition 21.3 and Intel Quartus Standard Edition 21.1 onward. You may consider using the Questa software for future classes.

For those who may come across this issue, we found that the license file can't be checkout was due to the license being a node-locked type. Floating type license is needed to Set Up a License File in the License Server.

With the issue solved, I will now transition this thread to community support. If you have a new question, feel free to open a new thread to get the support from Intel experts. Otherwise, the community users will continue to help you on this thread. Thank you.

Best Regards,
Richard Tan

p/s: If any answer from the community or Intel support are helpful, please feel free to give Kudos.