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Foundation F1.5i: Upgrading your Foundation Express license to 3.1


Record #6080

Product Family: Software

Product Line: Synopsys

Product Part: FPGA Express

Product Version: 3.1

Problem Title:
Foundation F1.5i: Upgrading your Foundation Express license to 3.1


Problem Description:
Urgency: Standard

General description:
When upgrading from Foundation Express F1.5i (Express v2.1.3) to Foundation Express F1.5i Service Pack 1 (Express v3.1), you will need to upgrade your license in order to access Vista, the FPGA Express schematic viewer.


Solution 1:

Replace the PACKAGE section of your license.dat file with the following package. This applies to Foundation Standard Express packages only, not Foundation Base Express. Base Express users do not have access to Vista, so these users do not have to update their license.

This information can also be found in %XILINX%\data\license_update.txt in your
Foundation install area.

# This is a FLEXlm license file comment line.
#
# This file may be used to update existing Xilinx Foundation Series
# Foundation Express license files to utilize new capabilities included
# in Foundation Express 1.5i SP1
#
# The license file is pointed to by the LM_LICENSE_FILE environment
# variable, and is typcially installed at C:\FlexLM\license.dat
#
# To upgrade an existing license, the license must have a valid
# FND-EXP-PC INCREMENT line.  Replace the appropriate PACKAGE
# declaration with the following PACKAGE declaration.
#
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# For FND-EXP-PC INCREMENT lines similar to the following:
#
#INCREMENT FND-EXP-PC xilinxd 1.000 01-JAN-2002 0 FC04A504B384F4A5A07E	\
#	"XSJ_davet" 00a024a9ea43
#
# Replace the existing FND-EXP-PC PACKAGE declaration with the following:
#
PACKAGE FND-EXP-PC xilinxd 1.000 E0808061931BA001FC49 \
      COMPONENTS="system-PC bit-PC \
      xc3000D-PC xc4000X-PC xc5200X-PC \
      ngd2vhdl-PC verilog-PC \
      Foundation-PC X-VHDL-PC \
      FPGA-Express:1998.08 \
      FPGA-Express-VHDL-Base:1998.08 \
      FPGA-Express-VLOG-Base:1998.08 \
      FPGA-Express-XC3k-Optimizer:1998.08 \
      FPGA-Express-XC4k-Optimizer:1998.08 \
      FPGA-Express-XC5k-Optimizer:1998.08 \
      FPGA-Express-VIRTEX-Optimizer:1998.08 \
      FPGA-Express-XC9k-Optimizer:1998.08 \
      FPGA-Express-Constraint-Mgr:1998.08 \
      FPGA-Express-GAT:1998.08 "
#
# End of FND-EXP-PC PACKAGE declaration
#




End of Record #6080 - Last Modified: 08/09/99 13:34

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