Specifications

CHAPTER 2: LICENSING ALTERA SOFTWARE
SETTING UP THE LICENSE FILE
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2. When you complete all modifications, ensure the conditions described
in“License File Conditions” on page 41 are met.
Specifying the License for Intellectual
Property (IP) Cores, DSP Builder, or
Intellectual Property (IP) and
Development Kits
If you have installed and set up your license for the Quartus II software,
you can modify the license.dat file to include licensing information for
intellectual property (IP) cores, DSP Builder, or intellectual property and
development kits.
If you have not installed and set up your license for the Quartus II software,
first follow the instructions in “Setting Up the License File” on page 40.
Follow these steps to add each IP core, DSP Builder, or intellectual property
and development kit feature line, to an existing Altera license file.
1. Open the license email you received from Altera after purchasing an IP
core, DSP Builder, or intellectual property and development kit. The
license email contains the FEATURE lines required for licensing.
2. Open your Quartus II license.dat file in a text editor.
Notes:
(1) You can specify a port number in the license file to prevent port number conflicts. If you do not
specify a port number, the FLEXlm license manager automatically chooses a free port between
27000 and 27009.
(2) In some network environments, the license server does not have a software tool(s) installation
that provides the necessary vendor daemon (alterad or mgcld). In this case, copy the required
daemon from another machine, save the file in a similarly named directory, or any other location
on the license server, and specify the daemon location on the license server in the license file.
(3) If the path server has spaces in it, enclose the full path in quotation marks.
(4) If you are not using a license file for the ModelSim-Altera software, you may delete this line.
(5) The MAX+PLUS II software installs the FLEXlm software in the /adm directory, depending on
what the user specified during installation.
(6) Quartus II software versions 8.0 and later do not support the Sun Solaris operating system.
However, Altera software does support Sun Solaris license servers.
Table 3. Variables to Modify in the License File (license.dat) (Part 2 of 2)
Variable Name Description