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ErinM
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1 year ago

Request to rehost a legacy floating license.

Hello Technical Support Team, We have a single, floating license for the "Nios II Soft Processor FPGA IP - F Core" that is tied to a USB dongle with a Software Guard ID. We use this to maintain multip...
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ErinM
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1 year ago

Hi AR_A_Intel,

Thank you for the suggestion to request the free Quartus software license, but it doesn't appear to include the Nios II Soft Processor IP - F Core (features 6AF8_00A2 and 6AF7_00A2) that our designs require.

As viewed in Quartus 13.1.4 Web Edition's License Setup, with Host ID Values removed, here are the IP covered by our floating license that we wish to rehost:

Again, our concern is that access to the licensed IP relies on an old Altera USB dongle that sometimes fails to be recognized. If it will help, I can provide our current license .dat file via private message.

Thank you,

ErinM