Altera PCI Development Kit, Cyclone II Edition Getting Started - Manual (Page 16)

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PCI Development Kit, Cyclone II Edition Getting Started User Guide May 2005
Setting Up Licensing
Setting Up
Licensing This section describes the software licensing procedures.
Licensing the PCI Development Kit, Cyclone II Edition
Before using the Quartus II software, you must obtain a license file from
the Altera web site at www.altera.com and install the license file on your
PC.
1 The Quartus II DKE software license allows you to use the
product for 12 months. After 12 months, you must purchase a
Fixed PC or FloatNet subscription.
To obtain a license, follow these steps:
1 If you have a Fixed PC or FloatNet Quartus II subscription, you
can use that software instead of the Quartus II DKE software. If
you intend to use your existing licensed software, you can skip
the instructions below to obtain the license for the Quartus II
Software Development Kit Edition included in your
development kit.
1. Select the Licensing link at the top-right corner on the home page of
the Altera Web site at www.altera.com.
2. Click Cyclone II Development Kits.
3. Follow the instructions to request your license. Altera will e-mail
you a license file that enables the software. You need your network
identification card (NIC) ID and the kit serial number to license the
Quartus II software.
1
Your network interface card (NIC) ID is a 12-character
hexadecimal number that uniquely identifies your
computer. You can find the NIC ID for your card by typing
ipconfig /all
at a command prompt. Your NIC ID is the
number on the physical address line.
The kit serial number is an 11-digit code of the form
2C35PCXXXXX where the X’s represent decimal numbers.
This serial number is located in three places: on the external
shipping box, internal box, and Quartus II CD- ROM jacket.
Refer to the serial number sticker in
Figure 2–2 .