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RMehr1
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6 years ago

Does "Arm DS-5 Development Studio for Intel SoC FPGA Devices" license available through the University Program?

We are experiencing license errors related with "altera_compiler5" feature not being available, when DS5 compiler is called. We did not have this issue in previous years. Is this a new change, or related to a setup issue?

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      Thanks for the response Anand, at our University, we (and our students) have been buygin DE1-SoC boards containing Cyclone V FPGAs and ARM processors.

      We used to be able to run the EDS tools until this year. I am not sure what "kit" EDS comes with. Is it included with IntelFPGA hardware (e.g. DE1 boards) ?

      Is it sold separately? We are in a bind right now, and our labs using EDS software are not able to continue due to this missing "altera_compiler5".

      My questions to IntelFPGA university program email are not answered. Any help would be appreciated.

      Best Wishes,

      Roozbeh

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    Hi Roozbeh,

    Serial number comes with Intel development kit.You can contact terasic support for terasic boards.

    If you are looking for an eval/web edition license.

    You have to send an e-mail to ARM support and they will send you a license file.

    Regards

    Anand

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    Hello Annand,

    unfortunately Terasic does not provide the EDS license. Is there any way to obtain/purchase the license?

    We would be switching to Rocket boards for our future FPGA/ARM related labs.

    The 15 or 30 day license won't satisfy the 3 month course and its lab needs. If you have any solution for us, it would be greatly appreciated.

    thank you,

    Roozbeh

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    Hi Anand,

    I contacted ARM support and eventually got a response from them. I have included their response before. Were you aware that ARM has dropped support for their DS-5 compiler (as of last year) and they don't even issue licenses for it. Their current license key is for their ARM DS compiler (which is not compatible with DS-5). Your SoC EDS software (https://fpgasoftware.intel.com/soceds/) as of 19.3 still depends on ARM DS-5 compiler!!?? This has caused a lot of distress for our faculty and we are considering dropping EDS from our labs.

    Let me know if you have any other suggestions.

    best wishes,

    roozbeh

    Hello Roozbeh

    I believe the issues you are seeing are because you are trying to use the legacy DS-5 tools with an Arm-DS license.

    DS-5 was discontinued just over a year ago:

    https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/embedded/legacy-tools/ds-5-development-studio

    It was superseded by Arm-DS:

    https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/embedded/arm-development-studio

    Your updated license supports Arm-DS, but not DS-5.

    Is it possible to update your tool installation to work with the latest version of the tools?

    Best regards,

    Alex

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    Sorry, I meant "I have included their response below".

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    Hello Anand,

    not sure if your internal discussion reached ARM support, or they just decided to extend their support for DS-5 compiler license. They now issue license for DS-5 compiler:

    https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/embedded/legacy-tools/ds-5-development-studio

    We also received new keys for the features we had. FYI: in Intel SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite, from ARM license manager, selecting toolkit: DS-5 (University) checks out the license that was meant for academic institutes. The other one: DS-5 Intel SoC FPGA Edition requires a different license, which we don't have/get.

    Thanks for the follow up,

    Roozbeh