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sunkim68
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4 years ago

vsim.exe - System Error

Hello, When I install Quartus Pro for evaluation, trying to free use, I have issues when I open questa sim as attached snapshot, "MSVCR120.dll was not found" would you please let me know how I c...
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4 years ago

Try to install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 and see if the issue resolved.

Best Regards,
Richard Tan

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4 years ago

I install Visual Studio 2019 and re-install quartus with fee questa_sim, guesta_fse

but when I try running questa sim, it is ask license as attached.

would you please let me know what I need to do for fix?

Thank you,

Sun

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    RichardT_altera
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    4 years ago

    Hi @sunkim68

    Questa*-Intel FPGA Starter Edition is free, but requires zero cost licenses.

    The LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable specify the location of the license file. Before using Questa*-Intel® FPGA Edition software, you must set an environment variable the location of license.

    1. You need to have a license.dat file first. Request the license from the Self Service Licensing Center if you haven't done so.
    2. Then, go to "My PC", right click properties
    3. Click Advanced System Setting.
    4. In the "Advanced" tab, click environment variable
    5. In the "System Variable", create a New variable with name= LM_LICENSE_FILE, value= <the path to your license.dat> e.g. C:\license.dat
    6. Click Ok and restart the Questa.

    Or a more straight forward way:
    In the command prompt:
    setx LM_LICENSE_FILE <the path to your license.dat>

    For more information, refer to the User Guide below:

    https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/programmable/documentation/esc1425946071433.html#qrv1516933251246

    Best Regards,
    Richard Tan

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

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      sunkim68
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      4 years ago

      Hi Richard,

      Thanks for your information and I am trying to follow-up still I have issues

      I generated it, download and set it up as below but I had a error as attached.

      C:\Users\sunki>lmutil lmdiag
      lmutil - Copyright (c) 1989-2019 Flexera. All Rights Reserved.
      FlexNet diagnostics on Mon 10/11/2021 13:05

      -----------------------------------------------------
      License file: C:\intelFPGA_pro\21.3\1-UXUQF7_License.dat
      -----------------------------------------------------

      Would you please let me know what I missed?

      Thanks,

      Sun Kim

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        RichardT_altera
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        4 years ago

        Hi @sunkim68

        Could you help to share the license .dat file so I could look into it?

        Best Regards,
        Richard Tan

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