1-1. SoC EDS License

● Arm® DS Intel® SoC FPGA Edition is the only licensed component in the Intel® SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite (hereafter referred to as SoC EDS).

● From Intel® Quartus® Prime software (hereafter referred to as Quartus® Prime) v20.1, the standard software integrated development environment adopted by SoC EDS has shifted to Arm® DS Intel® SoC FPGA Edition.
The legacy Arm® DS-5™ can be used with Quartus® Prime v19.4 and earlier, but please note the following:
◦ New licenses for Arm® DS-5™ Intel® SoC FPGA Edition have been discontinued (for new adoption, please use Arm® DS).
◦ According 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 license information, please refer to the Arm® DS Intel® SoC FPGA Edition Toolkit page.
◦ A paid license is required to use Arm® DS Intel® SoC FPGA Edition.
◦ You can purchase a standalone license for Arm® DS Intel® SoC FPGA Edition or use the license included with some Intel® SoC FPGA development kits.
◦ Paid licenses include support and maintenance from Intel for 1 or 3 years from date of purchase or renewal. The license period is as follows.

◦ For obtaining and setting a 30-day trial evaluation license, please refer to "6-2. Obtaining and Setting a Trial Evaluation License".
◦ The evaluation license is for Arm® DS Gold Edition, which is supported by Arm, not Intel® SoC FPGA Edition, but there is no functional difference (can be used for trial evaluation of Intel® SoC FPGA Edition). .

1-2. License acquisition

● If you purchased a standalone license for some Intel® SoC FPGA Development Kits or Arm® DS Intel® SoC FPGA Edition, an Arm license serial number will be issued and notified separately.

● This is a 15-digit alphanumeric string containing two dashes (-). □□□□□ ー □□□□□ ー □□□□□
◦ Use this Arm license serial number to obtain a license file to activate Arm® DS Intel® SoC FPGA Edition.
◦ The Arm license serial number will be sent to the customer (orderer) by e-mail from Intel.

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

5-1. Starting Embedded Command Shell

● You can start the following 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 on a 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

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.

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).

6-1. Add Product License

① When you run Arm® DS Intel® SoC FPGA Edition for the first time, the "Add Licenses" Box will open asking you to add your production licenses.
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.

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

④ Select the product to activate. Put ✓ in ”Arm Development Studio Intel FPGA Edition” and click [Next >].

⑤ Click [Exit].

⑥ Click [Apply and Close].

6-2. Obtaining and setting a trial evaluation license

① Execute Arm® DS Intel® SoC FPGA Edition [Help] menu ⇒ [ARM License Manager…].

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

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

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

⑤ Select the product to activate. Put ✓ in ”Arm Development Studio Intel FPGA Edition” and click [Next >].

⑥ Click [Finish].

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

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