time limited sof file

[Altera_Forum]

Hello,  

 I have still not purchased the license for NIOS II IP. So right now i get the _time_limited.sof file output from the Quartus 9.0 sp1 edition.    My question is can the time_limited.sof file be converted to flash format using the sof2flash utility ?    Apparantly I am getting an error during conversion process .. something that looks as follows    # Creating .flash file for the FPGA configuration "$SOPC_KIT_NIOS2/bin/sof2flash" --offset=0x0 --input="$SOPC_KIT_NIOS2/examples/v hdl/DBC3C40/epcs_boot1/DBC3C40_standard_time_limited.sof" --output="DBC3C40_stan dard_time_limited.flash"  Info: ******************************************************************* Info: Running Quartus II Convert_programming_file Info: Command: quartus_cpf --no_banner --convert C:/altera/90sp1/nios2eds/exampl es/vhdl/DBC3C40/epcs_boot1/DBC3C40_standard_time_limited.sof DBC3C40_standard_ti me_limited.rbf File C:/altera/90sp1/nios2eds/examples/vhdl/DBC3C40/epcs_boot1/DBC3C40_standard_ time_limited.sof contains one or more time-limited megafunctions that support th e OpenCore Plus feature that will not work after the hardware evaluation time ex pires. Refer to the Messages window for evaluation time details. Info: SRAM Object File C:/altera/90sp1/nios2eds/examples/vhdl/DBC3C40/epcs_boot1 /DBC3C40_standard_time_limited.sof contains time-limited megafunction that suppo rts OpenCore Plus feature -- Vendor: 0x6AF7, Product: 0x00A2 Info: SRAM Object File C:/altera/90sp1/nios2eds/examples/vhdl/DBC3C40/epcs_boot1 /DBC3C40_standard_time_limited.sof contains time-limited megafunction that suppo rts OpenCore Plus feature -- Vendor: 0x6AF7, Product: 0xBCEC Info: SRAM Object File C:/altera/90sp1/nios2eds/examples/vhdl/DBC3C40/epcs_boot1 /DBC3C40_standard_time_limited.sof contains time-limited megafunction that suppo rts OpenCore Plus feature -- Vendor: 0x6AF7, Product: 0xBCE1 SOF Data item missing input file Error: Convert Programming Files was NOT successful -- refer to messages that ap pear above this message for more information   Can somebody please help me out    Best regards, Rohit

[Altera_Forum]

No. 

Time limited means that you can not create files that can be used for production purposes to enable you to sell your design instead you need a connection between your pc and the target.