time_limited sof and license questions

Altera_Forum · ‎05-13-2014

Hello.

I am using an example on my Cyclone III DK-N2EVAL-3C25N NIOSII Development Board. This example is using many megafunction ip cores and I dont have any license file.

I have a .sof and an .elf file which i tries to convert to them on my sd-card.

I used these commands:

elf2flash --base=0x04000000 --end=0x4FFFFFF --reset=0x4000000 --input=$1 --output=$elfbase\_sw.flash --boot=$SOPC_KIT_NIOS2/components/altera_nios2/boot_loader_cfi.srec

sof2flash --activeparallel --timestamp --input=$2 --output=$sofbase\_hw.flash --offset=0x280000

The problem is that i get these error messages:

Info: Running Quartus II 32-bit Convert_programming_fileInfo: Command: quartus_cpf --no_banner --convert cycloneIII_3c25_niosII_video_time_limited_hw.cof
File cycloneIII_3c25_niosII_video_time_limited.sof contains one or more time-limited megafunctions that support the OpenCore Plus feature that will not work aft
er the hardware evaluation time expires. Refer to the Messages window for evaluation time details.
Info (210040): SRAM Object File cycloneIII_3c25_niosII_video_time_limited.sof contains time-limited megafunction that supports OpenCore Plus feature -- Vendor:
0x6AF7, Product: 0x00B1Info (210040): SRAM Object File cycloneIII_3c25_niosII_video_time_limited.sof co
ntains time-limited megafunction that supports OpenCore Plus feature -- Vendor:
0x6AF7, Product: 0x00B7
Info (210040): SRAM Object File cycloneIII_3c25_niosII_video_time_limited.sof contains time-limited megafunction that supports OpenCore Plus feature -- Vendor:
0x6AF7, Product: 0x00B5
Info (210040): SRAM Object File cycloneIII_3c25_niosII_video_time_limited.sof contains time-limited megafunction that supports OpenCore Plus feature -- Vendor:
0x6AF7, Product: 0x00A2
Info (210040): SRAM Object File cycloneIII_3c25_niosII_video_time_limited.sof contains time-limited megafunction that supports OpenCore Plus feature -- Vendor:
0x6AF7, Product: 0x00BE
Info (210040): SRAM Object File cycloneIII_3c25_niosII_video_time_limited.sof contains time-limited megafunction that supports OpenCore Plus feature -- Vendor:
0x6AF7, Product: 0x0003
Info (210040): SRAM Object File cycloneIII_3c25_niosII_video_time_limited.sof contains time-limited megafunction that supports OpenCore Plus feature -- Vendor:
0x6AF7, Product: 0x00B6
Error: Quartus II 32-bit Convert_programming_file was unsuccessful. 0 errors, 0
warnings
    Error: Peak virtual memory: 177 megabytes
    Error: Processing ended: Tue May 13 21:51:19 2014
    Error: Elapsed time: 00:00:00
    Error: Total CPU time (on all processors): 00:00:00
13.05.2014 21:51:19 - (SCHWERWIEGEND) sof2flash: Read error: File: cycloneIII_3c25_niosII_video_time_limited_hw.rbf not found, exiting
13.05.2014 21:51:19 - (SCHWERWIEGEND) sof2flash: Error retrieving data from cycloneIII_3c25_niosII_video_time_limited_hw.rbf

Ok that means i cant run it from my sd-card without having a license for all that megafunctions.

Is it possible to run this example then from the quartus gui and if yes, how is it possible to run the .elf(NiosII bin) file with the .sof at the same time?

I use the Quartus II 9.1sp2 Web Edition, because my example is not really new.

Thx for your help.

Altera_Forum · ‎05-13-2014

Use Quartus II to program your SOF and _keep_ the "time limited" dialog box open.

Use Nios II IDE to download and run your software.

That's it.

Cheers!

slacker