How to set up the Arm® Development Studio (DS) for Altera® SoC FPGA Edition license

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This article explains the license settings for Arm® Development Studio (DS) for Altera® SoC FPGA Edition (hereafter referred to as Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition), a software development tool for Altera® SoC FPGA devices.

1. Introduction
2. User registration with Arm
3. Preparing the Ethernet MAC Address (Host ID)
4. How to obtain a license file from the Arm website
5. Booting the Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition
6. Setting up the license file
7. How to Rehost Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition

1.First of all

1-1. SoC EDS License

The only component in the Altera® SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite (hereinafter referred to as SoC EDS) that requires a license is the Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition.

● Starting with Altera® Quartus® Prime design software (hereinafter referred to as Quartus® Prime) v20.1, the standard software integrated development environment adopted by SoC EDS has been transitioned to Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition.
The legacy Arm® DS-5™ software can be used with Quartus® Prime v19.4 and earlier versions, but please note the following:
◦ New sales of Arm® DS-5™ Altera® SoC FPGA Edition licenses have ended (please use Arm® DS for new adoption).
◦ Due to Arm's policy, there are no plans to update Arm® DS-5™ in the future (we recommend migrating to Arm® DS whenever possible).

● For licensing information, please refer to the Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition Toolkit page.
◦ A paid license is required to use the Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition.
◦ You can purchase a standalone Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition license or use the license included with select Altera® SoC FPGA development kits.
◦ Paid licenses include support and maintenance from Altera® for one or three years from the date of purchase or renewal. The license periods are as follows:

◦ For information on obtaining and setting up a 30-day trial evaluation license, see section 6-2, "Obtaining and Setting Up a Trial Evaluation License."
◦ The evaluation license is for the Arm® DS Gold Edition, which is supported by Arm, and not the Altera® SoC FPGA Edition, but there is no difference in functionality (it can be used to evaluate the Altera® SoC FPGA Edition).

1-2. License acquisition

● If you purchase a standalone license for some Altera® SoC FPGA development kits or Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition, you will be issued and notified of a separate Arm license serial number.

● This is a 15-digit alphanumeric string containing two dashes (-). □□□□□-□□□□□-□□□□□
◦ Use this Arm license serial number to obtain a license file to activate Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition.
◦ The Arm license serial number will be sent to you (the person placing the order) by email from Altera®.

1-3. Related information

● Please refer to the following page for SoC EDS information (as of December 2020).
◦ SoC EDS product introduction page
◦ SoC EDS download page

● For details on Arm® DS license management, please see the following page (as of December 2020).
◦ Licensing Arm Development Studio

2. User registration with Arm

● You will be asked to register user information during license registration. Please register in advance from the following page of Arm, and make a note of the registered email address and password.

① Click the “REGISTER” tab on the Arm page.

Figure 2-1. Click on the “REGISTER” tab on the Arm page

② Enter “Email Address” and click [Send verification code].

③ A verification code will be sent by E-mail from Arm.

④ Enter the verification code sent to you and click [Verify code].

Figure 2-4. Enter verification code and click Verify code

⑤ Enter “First name”, “Last name”, “Country”, “Password” and “Confirm password” and click [Create].

Figure 2-5. Enter each item and click [Create]

⑥ You will receive an e-mail confirming that your account registration has been completed. Click [Log in] to confirm that you can log in.

Figure 2-6. Click [Log in] from the account registration completion email

3. Preparing the Ethernet MAC Address (Host ID)

● To install and use the Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition, you will need to register your Ethernet MAC address as the host ID that will be linked to the license.

● The host ID uses the MAC address of the Ethernet device built into the PC, but in this case the Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition will be used on that PC.

● You can also register a license using a USB-connected Ethernet adapter. In this case, you can use the Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition on multiple computers by simply switching adapters, which is convenient in terms of portability (Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition cannot be used on multiple computers at the same time. It can only be used on one computer whose host ID is recognized via USB connection).

● You can check the Ethernet MAC address (physical address) by entering the following command at the command prompt on your computer.
◦ Windows environment: ipconfig /all
◦ Linux environment: ifconfig or ip a

● To move (rehost) an Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition license from the host ID (Ethernet MAC address) that generated the license to another host ID, you must obtain a new license file with the new host ID from Arm. For rehosting procedures, see "7. How to rehost Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition."

4. How to obtain a license file from the Arm website

● If you have your serial number (15 digits) and Ethernet MAC address, you can generate and download a license file directly from the Arm Software Licensing page.

① Go to the "Software Licensing Page". Click Generate.

Figure 4-1. Click Generate from the Arm Software Licensing page

② If the LOGIN screen shown below appears, enter your email address and password and click [Log in].

Figure 4-2. Enter your email address and password and click Log in

③ The Generate screen as shown below appears. Enter the serial number (15 digits) including two dashes (-) and click [Get License].

Figure 4-3. Enter the serial number on the Generate screen and click Get License

④ Select ETHERNET for “HostID Type”, enter the Ethernet MAC address for “HostID”, and click [Generate].

Figure 4-4. Select ETHERNET for “HostID Type”, enter MAC address for “HostID” and click [Generate].

⑤ Click [Confirm].

⑥ Click [Download License].

⑦ Click [Download] to download the generated license file.

Figure 4-7. Click Download to download the license file

5. Booting the Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition

5-1. Starting Embedded Command Shell

● You can start the Embedded Command Shell from the Windows Start menu:
◦ For 20.1 Pro: Start menu → Intel FPGA 20.1 Pro Edition → SoC EDS Command Shell
◦ For 20.1 Std: Start Menu → Intel FPGA 20.1 → SoC EDS Command Shell

● For Linux, run embedded_comand_shell.sh in the terminal.
◦ For 20.1 Pro: ~/intelFPGA_pro/20.1/embedded/embedded_command_shell.sh
◦ For 20.1 Std: ~/intelFPGA/20.1/embedded/embedded_command_shell.sh

Figure 5-1. Starting the Embedded Command Shell from the Windows Start Menu

Figure 5-2. Launched Embedded Command Shell

5-2. Launching the Arm® DS shell

① Run the cmdsuite program (suite_exe) from the Embedded Command Shell (example for Arm® DS version 2020.1).
◦ cmdsuite is the Arm® DS command prompt, an internal batch job for licensing and database configuration.
・ Windows environment: /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Arm/Development\ Studio\ 2020.1/bin/cmdsuite.exe
・ Linux environment: /opt/arm/developmentstudio-2020.1/bin/suite_exec -t "Arm Compiler 5" bash

(2) After executing the bash program, the prompt color of the Embedded Command Shell returns.
◦ By executing bash, the PATH to the Quartus® Prime tools is passed (in Linux environment, bash is already specified when suite_exe is executed)
bash

5-3. Launching Arm® DS Eclipse

(1) Execute the armds_ide command from Embedded Command Shell.
armds_ide &

(2) Arm® DS Eclipse opens. Updates may be made from the web for the first time.

Figure 5-5. Start Arm® DS Eclipse and first web update

③ The Welcome screen of Arm® DS will be displayed. This can be used to access documentation, tutorials and videos. If not necessary, click [Close] (X mark).

Figure 5-6. Click [Close] (X mark) on the Welcome screen

6. Setting up the license file

6-1. Add Product License

① When you run Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition for the first time, the "Add License" Box will open and prompt you to add a product license.
Select Add Product License and click Next >.

Figure 6-1. Select Add Product License and click Next >

* To add a license from the menu, execute [Help] menu ⇒ [ARM License Manager…].

② Click the [Add] button to open the [Add License] Box.

Figure 6-2. When adding a license from the Arm® DS menu

(3) Select [License File] and then [Browse...], and select the license file that you downloaded earlier from the Arm website.
Then click Next >.

Figure 6-3. Select the license file downloaded from the Arm website

④ Select the product to activate. Check "Arm Development Studio Altera® FPGA Edition" and click [Next >].

⑤ Click [Finish].

Figure 6-4. Select the product to activate (Arm Development Studio Altera® FPGA Edition)

⑥ Click [Apply and Close].

Figure 6-5. Click Apply and Close to finish configuring the active product

6-2. Obtaining and setting a trial evaluation license

① From the Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition [Help] menu, select [ARM License Manager…].

Figure 6-6. Run ARM License Manager from Arm® DS menu

(2) When the “Add license” Box opens, select [Get evaluation license] and click [Next >].

Figure 6-7. Select Get Evaluation License

③ When the “ARM account details” Box opens, enter the email address and password you registered in chapter “2.
Click Next>.

Figure 6-8. Enter your email address and password

(4) Select the network interface that will be used to register the evaluation license, and click [Next >].

⑤ Select the product to activate. Check "Arm Development Studio Altera® FPGA Edition" and click [Next >].

Figure 6-10. Select the product to activate (Arm Development Studio Altera® FPGA Edition)

⑥ Click [Finish].

Figure 6-11. Finish registering products to activate

⑦ Click Apply and Close to complete the trial evaluation license configuration.

7. How to Rehost Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition

● To move an Arm® DS Altera® SoC FPGA Edition license from the PC on which it was generated to another PC within your company, you must obtain a new license file with a new host ID from Arm.

● The host ID is generated from the Ethernet MAC address, and licenses must be transferred between PCs within the same legal entity.

● Rehosting can be applied for through the Arm Software Licensing page.

① Go to the Software Licensing page and click Rehost.

* If the LOGIN screen appears, enter your email address and password and click [Login].

Figure 7-1. Go to the "Software Licensing Page" and click "Rehost"

(2) A license reissuance request disclaimer will be displayed. If you agree, click [I Accept].

Figure 7-2. Click "I Accept" on the license reissue request disclaimer

③ Check the serial number and host ID you want to rehost, check “Rehost” and click [Rehost].

Figure 7-3. Confirm the serial number and host ID you want to rehost, check “Rehost” and click “Rehost”

(4) You will be prompted to enter the reason for rehosting. Select from the pull-down menu (Moving to a new workstation in this example) and click [Rehost].

Figure 7-4. Select the reason for rehosting and click Rehost

⑤ Your request has been sent successfully, and you will be notified that Arm Support will contact you later. Click OK.

Figure 7-5. You will be notified that Arm support will contact you later. Click OK.

⑥ As a result of requesting rehosting, a support case will be issued from Arm, and an Arm License Rehost Request e-mail will be sent.

⑦ After that, proceed with the correspondence according to the e-mail (instructions posted to the support case).

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