Specifications

CHAPTER 2: LICENSING THE QUARTUS II SOFTWARE
OBTAINING A LICENSE FILE
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2. Select Perform automatic web license retrieval to request a valid
license file automatically from the Altera website. You are guided
through the licensing procedure.
or
To request a license file at a later time, visit the Altera Software
Licensing page at www.altera.com/licensing.
3. If you are using a network (multiuser) license, type your license server
host ID.
4. Specify the requested information.
5. Specify the location of your license file. You will receive an e-mail from
Altera with a license.dat file attached, as well as the license file text.
You can either use the attached license file, or copy the lines from the
attached license file to an existing license file. When you receive the
license file text, save it in the /usr/local/flexlm/licenses directory. If you
are using your license.dat file with both the Quartus II software and the
MAX+PLUS II software, Altera recommends that you save it in a
top-level directory named flexlm.
Figure 1 show sample network license files for Linux workstations that
function as a single license server.
Figure 1. Sample Network License File for a Single Workstation Server
SERVER alice 807f1034 1800
VENDOR alterad "/opt/altera81/linux/alterad"
USE_SERVER
FEATURE quartus alterad 2008.12 permanent 5 7A496D25A602 SIGN="1C66 DAC6 1DAB C886 \
727B 65DF FAC2 B479 3E3C 656D 3561 E5D0 BBA3 C45C 4DDC 0F2F 68F5 4DF1 6F63 \
7785 2F5D 1480 1B0A 70DE 2220 1952 DDCD 9F4D 6D61 A177"
Optional port
number
Authorization
code
Number of
licenses
requested
Server
name
Server
host ID
number
Feature
name
Daemon
name
Release
date
Expiration
date