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Licenses for paid Quartus® Prime design software or paid intellectual property (IP) are registered by the licensee at the FPGA Self-Service Licensing Center (hereinafter referred to as the Licensing Center) by linking them to the NIC ID (Host ID) of the computer used.

If you want to change (rehost) the linked NIC ID for your own convenience, you can do so at the License Center.

 

Here, we will guide you on how to change the NIC ID (Host ID) of a computer that is already linked to a paid license.

This procedure must be carried out by the licensee.

Precautions when changing the NIC ID

- The NIC ID can be changed up to 3 times during the maintenance contract period. You can check the remaining number of changes that can be made in the License Center.

- If the remaining number of times you can change the NIC ID (remaining rehost count) is 0, you cannot change the NIC ID.

- When you renew your license maintenance contract, the remaining number of rehosts will be reset and renewed to a maximum of three times.

 

Sign in to License Center

Click the link below to go to the License Center sign-in page.

FPGA Self-Service Licensing Center

 

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.

[Notes]

To sign in to the Licensing Center, you must have an Intel Account and be registered with the FPGA Self-Service Licensing Center.

If you are signing in for the first time, see How to Sign Up for an Intel Account and How to Sign Up for the FPGA Self-Service Licensing Center.

Sign in to the FPGA Self-Service License Center

Sign-in is completed through the authentication system of Microsoft Azure AD.

 

If you have trouble signing in, visit Customer Support  Please contact us.

[Notes]

If the email address of your existing sign-in account is a shared address (group address), you cannot currently use it.

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.

 

If the FPGA Self-Service License Center top page appears, your access is complete.

FPGA Self-Service License Center top screen

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Check the number of times you can change

Click the Licenses menu and select Licenses With Active Maintenance. A list of active maintenance licenses will appear.

(If you want to change the NIC ID for licenses with expired maintenance, select [Licenses With Expired Maintenance].)

In the row for that license in the list, click the number displayed in the Available Rehosts column. NIC IDstrange Number of times it can be changed represents.
If it shows 0, you cannot change the NIC ID.

Checking the number of times the NIC ID can be changed

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Change the NIC ID associated with the license

There are two ways to change the NIC ID of a license:

Please use your preferred method and operation flow for rehosting.

[A] Change NIC ID per license

[B] Change NIC ID for each PC

Part of multiple licenses tied to one NIC ID

This is a convenient method when you want to rehost.

All multiple licenses associated with one NIC ID

This is a convenient method when you want to rehost all at once.

Change in License Assistant or Change in Menu Bar 

[A] Change NIC ID per license

Change with License Assistant

1. Click on the "License Assistant" banner in the bottom right corner of the License Center Home.

License Assistant banner

2. Select [Rehost and generate license] from the displayed items.

 

3. From the items displayed next, select one of the options to specify the information of the computer that owns the license you want to rehost.

[View all computers and select]

➡ All registered computer information is displayed

[Search computers]

➡ "Please enter first few characters of your Primary Computer ID or Name"

➡ NIC ID of the primary computer of the computer whose license you want to rehost,

Or enter the first few letters of the primary computer name

➡ Corresponding computer information is displayed

 

4. Select the computer information that owns the license you want to rehost.

License Assistant Options Menu

5. Select Move a license to a different computer from the options displayed.

 

6. Select Search licenses from the displayed options.

➡ "Enter few characters of product name"is displayed

➡ Enter part of the product name of the license you want to rehost

➡ Select the applicable license (product name)

 

7. Select Assign a existing computer from the options displayed.

License Assistant Options Menu

8. From the items displayed next, select one of the options to specify a new PC to be linked to the specified license.

[Search computers]

➡ "Please enter first few characters of your Primary Computer ID or Name"

➡ NIC ID of the primary computer of the computer to be specified as the rehost destination,

Or enter the first few letters of the primary computer name

➡ Corresponding computer information is displayed

[View all computers and select]

➡ All registered computer information is displayed

 

9. Select the computer information of the NIC ID to be newly linked.

License Assistant Options Menu

10. Select [Yes] to the question "Do you want to proceed with license generation?"

A license file will be sent to your registered email address.

You can also get the license file by clicking "View computer and license files."

 

11. Select [No] to the question "Do you want me to help you with anything else?" and exit the License Assistant.

License Assistant Options Menu

12. Save the license file attached to the E-mail to the computer that uses the license. In the folder path to save,

Do not use double-byte characters or spaces.

It is recommended to save the file with the extension.dat. Do not use double-byte characters or spaces when renaming the file.

After that, set the license file according to the license type and use it.

 

The operation to change the NIC ID in License Assistant is now complete.

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[B] Change the NIC ID for each PC

Change with License Assistant

* If the number of ID changes is 0 among the licenses linked to the computer, it cannot be changed by this method.

1. Click on the "License Assistant" banner in the bottom right corner of the License Center Home.

License Assistant banner

2. Select [Rehost and generate license] from the displayed items.

 

3. From the items displayed next, select one of the options to specify the information of the computer that owns the license you want to rehost.

[View all computers and select]

➡ All registered computer information is displayed

[Search computers]

➡ "Please enter first few characters of your Primary Computer ID or Name"

➡ NIC ID of the primary computer of the computer whose license you want to rehost,

Or enter the first few letters of the primary computer name

➡ Corresponding computer information is displayed

 

4. Select the computer information that owns the license you want to rehost.

License Assistant Options Menu

5. Select Change computer information for all licenses from the displayed options.

 

6." Do you want to change primary computer information?" to the question [Yes] Choose.

➡ "" Enter few characters of product name" displayed as

➡ Enter the computer name of the computer with the license you want to rehost

  

7. Select the appropriate license type for the question "Select Host License Type : Single User - FIXED / Multiple Users - FLOAT".

License Assistant Options Menu

8. When the message "Please select Compute type. How to determine Computer Type"is displayed, specify the primary computer type.

(* If you select FLOAT in 7 above, the options are NIC ID and HOST ID.)

  

9. Enter the NIC ID or HOST ID to be newly linked.

 

10. Answer Yes/No to the question "Do you want to add companion/redundant computers?"

If you need companion/redundant settings, select Yes and follow the chat instructions.

Here we continue with the case where No (do not add companion/redundant) is selected.

  

11. Select Yes to the question "Do you want to proceed with license generation?"

A license file will be sent to your registered email address.

License Assistant Options Menu

12. To the question "Do you want me to help you with anything else?" [No]  Select to exit the License Assistant.

(You can also get the license file by clicking "View computer and license files.")

13. Save the license file attached to the E-mail to the computer that uses the license. In the folder path to save,

Do not use double-byte characters or spaces.

The file extension is.dat  It is recommended to save in . Do not use double-byte characters or spaces when renaming the file.

After that, set the license file according to the license type and use it.

 

The operation to change the NIC ID in License Assistant is now complete.

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change in the menu bar

1. Click the Computers and License File menu and select Active Computers.

(The registered computer information is displayed.)

Active Computers (Computers and License File menu)

 

2. From the list of host information, click the "Primary computer ID" column of the primary computer row that owns the license you want to rehost.

If you have a lot of host information to manage, use the search Box on the upper right.

(You can also change the NIC ID by clicking the ▼ button on the far right and selecting [Edit].)

host information

 

3. On the host (computer) information edit screen, click the pencil icon at the right end of the "Primary Computer ID" field, and

Change to the new NIC ID to rehost.

Edited items are highlighted in yellow. Other fields can be edited as required.

 

4. Click the Save button to update your information.

Update main (primary) computer ID

 

This completes the procedure for changing the NIC ID.

 

5. To issue a license file for the NIC ID after rehosting, click [Issue License] from the action bar on the upper right of the screen.

Issuing licenses

6. Save the license file attached to the E-mail to the computer that uses the license. In the folder path to save,

Do not use double-byte characters or spaces.

It is recommended to save the file with the extension.dat. Do not use double-byte characters or spaces when renaming the file.

After that, set the license file according to the license type and use it.

 

The operation to change the NIC ID on the menu bar is now complete.

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