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CHAPTER 2: LICENSING THE QUARTUS II SOFTWARE
LICENSING RELATED SOFTWARE
31 ■ INSTALLATION & LICENSING FOR LINUX WORKSTATIONS ALTERA CORPORATION
Licensing Related Software
In addition to licensing the Quartus II software, you must also license any
other related Altera software you install. This section contains licensing
procedures for the MegaCore IP Library, Nios II Embedded Design Suite,
and ModelSim-Altera software.
MegaCore IP Library
Once you purchase a license for any of the IP cores, you can request a license
file from the Licensing section of the Altera website at www.altera.com/
licensing and install it on your computer.
If you have already installed a license for an IP core, and then you receive a
new license file for a new IP core, you can either append the license file to
your existing license.dat file, or you can specify the IP core’s license.dat file
in the Quartus II software.
Nios II Embedded Design Suite
You can create, compile, and generate time-limited FPGA programming
files for Nios II hardware systems without obtaining a license file. To
generate non-time-limited FPGA programming files and flash
programming files, you must obtain a license for the Nios II processor core
in addition to the license for the Quartus II software. You do not need a
license to develop software using only the Nios II IDE.
ModelSim-Altera
You can request a ModelSim-Altera license file from the Licensing section of
the Altera website at www.altera.com/licensing and install it on your
computer.
The ModelSim-Altera software supports licenses using the Mentor Graphics
license daemon mgcld. You can find the mgcld daemon in the following
directories:
<modelsim-altera installation dir>/linuxaloem