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Arno-NL
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2 years ago

Quartus Prime Standard Purchase Eligiability

Dear Sales / Licensing:

Hello. I'm citizen of the Netherlands. I would like to know whether I would be eligible to purchase a Quartus Prime Standard license for personal / hobby purposes? I do not own a company, nor do I have any sort of commercial intent. However I'm a crazy hoobyist with a fancy for an old computer system and old fashioned digital design.

I own a Cyclone V GX Starter Kit which I use as a playground for development of audio / video applications of which one possible project is a synchronous rebuild of the MSX2 computer system of the 80's. I have no clue whether I'm ever gonna finish it, however I'm mainly in it for the design journey. I own one of such systems myself.

And so, designs would involve driving I2C, the HDMI chip that comes along with the board, as well as the audo codec and possible external periphials like a keyboard. Other stuff would be a from the ground up synchronous implementation of the Z80 CPU and associated periphials like the video chip. Any ways, as said, it would be a personal play ground which I may eventually share wilthin relevant communities when I am happy with the results. But that's future stuff.

So.. am I eligible?

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  • _AK6DN_'s avatar
    _AK6DN_
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    2 years ago

    Is there not a web/lite FREE version of Quartus that you can start with?

    I've used Quartus on a whole lot of TerAsic and Altera boards over the past 25+ years and never had to purchase a license.

    If you migrate to one of the latest / biggest / costly devices or want to use specific licensed IP then a Prime Pro or Standard version might be necessary.

    But I'd go to the download page:

    https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/collections/products/fpga/software/downloads.html?f:guidetmD240C377263B4C70A4EA0E452D0182CA=%5BIntel%C2%AE%20Quartus%C2%AE%20Prime%20Design%20Software%5D

    and see if a Prime Lite version 22.1.2 fits your immediate needs.

    • Arno-NL's avatar
      Arno-NL
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      2 years ago

      Hello,

      Thank you for your answer. I'm indeed aware of the free / Lite version. I've been using Quartus since version 7. However, I have a few reasons to consider actually buying a Standard edition of the software.

      As far as the latest version goes that you link, I've tried these latest versions before. Though the case with these newer versions since 20.1.1.720 is that the new ModelSim version called Questa installs on my system, though no matter how I install or refer to the obtained license for this Questa version, I can not get it to run. Quest will NOT pick up the free license obtained through the license center. So that stopped me from using any of the newer Quartus/Questasim versions.

      My reasons for a Standard license thus come down to the following motive:

      - Associate a legal identification of myself to a purchased license. So "they" know who I am, legitimized through a license.

      - Possibly run Questa without problems where it picks up the associated purchased license properly. I can then make full use of product support and together with Intel figure out why I am not able to use QuestaSim and have to use an older version with ModelSim that still works properly.

      - Private derived IP developments possibly being protected better.

      So, I actually hope from an answer from Intel for this.

      Thanks for your time though.

  • AR_A_Intel's avatar
    AR_A_Intel
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    2 years ago

    We haven't received a response from you, and I trust that my previous message has clarified any concerns or confusion. We are ready to move forward with this matter. I'll now transfer this conversation to community support. If you have any new inquiries, feel free to initiate a new thread for assistance from Intel experts. Otherwise, community members are available to support you in this ongoing discussion. Thank you.