Licensing of IP cores

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HI, 

 I am working on Quatrus II tool and I want to use several megafuntions in my project. However I am confused about the licensing of the cores. Is it that megafunctions are availble for free and megacores require licensing and pricing. Please help.

[Altera_Forum]

what are the IPs that you planning to use?

[Altera_Forum]

If you can generate the core, then you have a licence to use it.

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  HI,  I am working on Quatrus II tool and I want to use several megafuntions in my project. However I am confused about the licensing of the cores. Is it that megafunctions are availble for free and megacores require licensing and pricing. Please help.  --- Quote End ---    It depends on which megafunction or megacore that you are looking at. Generally the protocol specific IP would require license. Simpler module ie transceiver PHYs are free.

[Altera_Forum]

Hi Nagakiran, 

 You can check into the specific megacore's user guide or documentation. It should tell you if license if required or not.