Licensing issue for academic projects with DE2(-115)

[Altera_Forum]

Hello, I've got the Altera DE2 and the DE2-115 which I bought for an electronics course at university. Now after the course I want to continue practicing with the board but the Quartus II web edition v12 will not compile the digital components' sketches anymore. Can you suggest what I need to do / need to buy to get compilation support for my academic purposes? Thank you 

 Details: I first installed Quartus II last year to use for this engineering course and we made digital components for the DE2 which worked well and we could compile the components. Now after some time, the 2 month license that I got from Altera to lock up Quartus II appears to have gone out and the suite is back to unlicensed with no compilation support. I'm fairly certain this is the case and not a broken installation or a program setting.    

[Altera_Forum]

Follow up with more details on what specific problems you are having with the compilation. It might be something simple like a tool installation issue, as opposed to a licensing issue.

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  Follow up with more details on what specific problems you are having with the compilation. It might be something simple like a tool installation issue, as opposed to a licensing issue.  --- Quote End ---   Thank you for the reply. I updated the question with more details about my situation.

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  Hello, I've got the Altera DE2 and the DE2-115 which I bought for an electronics course at university. Now after the course I want to continue practicing with the board but the Quartus II web edition v12 will not compile the digital components' sketches anymore. Can you suggest what I need to do / need to buy to get compilation support for my academic purposes? Thank you  Details: I first installed Quartus II last year to use for this engineering course and we made digital components for the DE2 which worked well and we could compile the components. Now after some time, the 2 month license that I got from Altera to lock up Quartus II appears to have gone out and the suite is back to unlicensed with no compilation support. I'm fairly certain this is the case and not a broken installation or a program setting.   --- Quote End ---    Web Edition should be sufficient for most projects you might have worked on.  It sounds like you are using Subscription Edition without a license.  Try installing Web Edition.

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--- Quote Start ---  Web Edition should be sufficient for most projects you might have worked on.  It sounds like you are using Subscription Edition without a license.  Try installing Web Edition.  --- Quote End ---    Thank you. I'll try Web Edition. You could be right but I think that I need to be able to compile digital components, will that still be doable with the Web Edition i.e. compiling an ALU, compiling a 4-bit system and downloading them to the board(s)? Thanks

[Altera_Forum]

If your "digital components" are licensed IP products, you will need to add license files for them. But if they are your own creations, you should be fine. 

 Web Edition vs. Subscription Edition features are summarized here: http://www.altera.com/literature/po/ss_quartussevswe.pdf  Web Edition will not work for you if you are using higher end devices or need support for faster compile times through incremental compilation etc. (it doesnt sound like you do). In other words, Web Edition is largely the same as Subscription Edition, except it's slower and only works on inexpensive devices (like the one on your DE2-115 board).

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  If your "digital components" are licensed IP products, you will need to add license files for them. But if they are your own creations, you should be fine.  Web Edition vs. Subscription Edition features are summarized here: http://www.altera.com/literature/po/ss_quartussevswe.pdf  Web Edition will not work for you if you are using higher end devices or need support for faster compile times through incremental compilation etc. (it doesnt sound like you do). In other words, Web Edition is largely the same as Subscription Edition, except it's slower and only works on inexpensive devices (like the one on your DE2-115 board).  --- Quote End ---    That sounds like it will work since the projects e.g. adder, decoder, ALU, are my own creations according to instructions in my exercises. You may have a look   http://www.ict.kth.se/courses/is1500/2012/dicom/index.html  at the "digital components" exercise that I used for DE2, they all work perfectly but now I want to port everything to DE2-115 when I now also got both a DE2 and a DE2-115. I can make everything work with DE2 but I want to complete everything with DE2-115 also. I'm reinstalling to Quartus II Web Edition a.s.a.p. and I noticed that it was actually the subscription edition that I've been using and now it dropped compilation support since it's the subscription edition.  Many thanks