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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 rel...
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6 years ago

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It was superseded by Arm-DS: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