Quartus II and megacore license

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Hi, 

 A customer of mine has different version of license for the Quartus II and megacores.  Quartus II: 2010.12 (support latest and before) megacore: 2009.12 (support 9.1 and before)  Can he generate sof file in the following case?  (1) Creating a megacore with 9.1 and compile the design with 9.1sp1 (2) Creating a megacore with 9.1sp1 and compile the design with 9.1sp1  Thanks,

[Altera_Forum]

good question. 

i had a similar problem and the first thing what my FAE did was to equalize them with the next renewal ....    --- Quote Start ---  (1) Creating a megacore with 9.1 and compile the design with 9.1sp1   --- Quote End ---   Yes this should work some megacores like FIR copy the required files and add the relatives paths to the QIP file, so i have some FIRs for example that are updated last time with 9.0 and still compile with 9.1SP1 without a 9.0 installation.    --- Quote Start ---  (2) Creating a megacore with 9.1sp1 and compile the design with 9.1sp1  --- Quote End ---   i think SP1 is a service pack (bug fixes) of an existing funktional version 9.1 so it should be part of the licence as 9.1 was released before 2009-12. but that is my opinion and experience with different software, a service pack is not a new release

[Altera_Forum]

Hi MShmitt, 

 Thank you for your answer.