If you use the paid Intel Quartus® Prime development software or the paid IP (Intellectual Property) Questa* - Intel® FPGA Edition for Intel® FPGA development, you must purchase a license (right of use) for that product, After that you need to get a license file. When you get a purchased license file for the first time, you must associate the “purchased license” with the “NIC ID (Network Interface Card ID) of the computer that uses the development software or IP”. This procedure is done by the licensee himself/herself on the manufacturer's website "Intel FPGA Self-Service License Center".
Here, we will show you how to link a new license to your computer inthe Self-Service License Center.
There are four work menus.
To obtain the Quartus® Prime license that comes with your Intel® FPGA Development Kit, please click here.
Also, if you would like to obtain a Questa*-Intel® FPGA Starter Edition license for free OEM tools, please visit here.
Sign in to your Intel account
Go to the homepage of "Intel FPGAs & Programmable Devices" and click the person icon on the top right of the screen.
A sign-in screen will appear, so enterthe email addressyou registered when you created your account and click [Next].
[Notes]
Don't have an account? Learn how to sign up for an Intel Account (Intel® Developer Zone Standard).
Sign-in is completed through the authentication system of Microsoft Azure AD.
If you have trouble signing in, visit Customer Support Please contact us.
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If the email address of the existing sign-in account is a shared address, it is not currently available.
It is necessary to change the administrator's e-mail address to an e-mail address that can be used to sign in, so please contact the person in charge at our company.
Sign in to License Center
Specify "United States (English)" from the language selection, and click the human icon on the upper right of the screen again to display the menu. (* The menu may not be displayed in Japanese.)
SelectIntel® FPGA Self Service Licensing Centerfrom here.
A sign-in page for the License Center appears.
Click [Already enrolled ? -Sign In here] on the left side of the screen to sign in.
Access is completed when the top page of the license center is displayed.
Register a new computer
Newly register the information of the computer for which the license file is to be issued.
If you want to link a new license to a computer that has already been registered with the License Center, skip this step and proceed to Link a new license to a computer.
1. Click the Computers and License File menu and select All Computers.
(The registered computer information is displayed.)
2. Click New in the upper right corner of the screen.
※ Note! Since there is no "delete computer" function, once registered computer information cannot be deleted.
3. Enter the information of the computer to be registered.
item | explanation |
Primary computer name | Enter the identification name of the computer to be registered on the license center. The primary computer name can be changed after registration. |
Primary computer type |
Select NIC ID or HOST ID depending on the type of license to be issued.
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License Type |
Specifies the type of license to use. FIXED or FLOAT.Choose from |
Primary Computer ID |
For FIXED use, enter the NIC ID of the PC using Quartus Prime, IP, Questa*-Intel® FPGA Edition. When using FLOAT, enter the NIC ID or HOST ID of the computer used for the license server. |
Companion ID 1/2 or Redundant Server ID 1 / 2 |
Input is optional. For companion licenses, see How to Get a Companion License. A redundant license is registered when operating three FLOAT license servers. [Notes] - You can change the NIC ID after registration, but you cannot leave it blank. ・If you register or change these NIC IDs after linking the license, the number of IDs that can be changed (up to 3 times) during the maintenance contract period will be reduced. |
4. Click the [Save] button.
5. If you can confirm that the registered computer information is displayed in the [Computers and license files] menu, registration is complete.
Link the new license to your computer
Link the newly purchased license to the registered computer.
[Note]
If you have purchased multiple IP licenses at the same time and you want to link only a few of the FIXED computers or the number of purchased licenses to one NIC ID,
It is necessary to divide the license in advance. After that, connect it to your computer.
Learn more about how to split your license.
1. Click the License menu and select New License.
Registered (purchased) licenses that are not linked to a computer are displayed.
2. Click the license name of the appropriate license to go to the linked page.
3. Click the Issue License button on the top right of the page.
4. The Issue License window will appear.
Double-click "Searching for host information" in the [Assign an existing computer] column, or click a registered computer name or
Enter the NIC ID to search and select the computer to assign the license to.
5. Click the Create button.
A license file will be sent to your registered e-mail address.
If you want to assign multiple licenses to one computer, repeat steps 1 to 5 and use the last issued license file.
Now you can get the license file.
Save the attached license file to the computer where you will use the license. It is recommended to save the file with the extension.dat.
License files that have already been issued can be reissued at the License Center. See here for how to reissue.
Set the obtained license file
Set the obtained license file according to the license type.
For the setting method, refer to the following.
Please note that the license for Arm® Development Studio (DS) for Intel® SoC FPGA Edition has a different procedure, so please see below.
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