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raphiRubi
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3 years ago

Questa 2021.1, Fatal License Error: Unable to checkout a viewer license

Hi, Two weeks ago I "signed up for Evaluation or No-Cost License" for the "Questa*-Intel® FPGA Starter Edition (License: SW-QUESTA). The simulator was running perfectly. Using LM_LICENSE_FILE varia...
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JoeW
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11 months ago

Many thanks to jster's solution kindly shared to the community, especially the PDF file.

I followed the PDF steps mostly for my Windows 10's QuestaIntel Starter FPGA Edition-64 2023.3 (coming with Quartus Lite 23.1std). My issue was the NIC ID output from my terminal's ipconfig /all is not the same as the NIC ID shown in Quartus.

After coping the NIC ID from Quartus and went to SSLC to use that NIC ID generating a new license, I placed it in a path and update the system environment variables. Then I was able to start Questa Sim.

It took me at least five hours resolving this issue, and the solution posted above was the one that actually helped me. Thank you again!