Altera DDR SDRAM High-Performance Controllers and ALTMEMPHY IP - Manual (Page 14)

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Installation and Licensing
External Memory Interface Handbook Volume 3 June 2011 Altera Corporation
Section I. DDR and DDR2 SDRAM Controllers with ALTMEMPHY IP User Guide
You need to purchase a license for the megafunction only when you are completely
satisfied with its functionality and performance, and want to take your design to
production.
OpenCore Plus Time-Out Behavior
OpenCore Plus hardware evaluation can support the following two modes of
operation:
■ Untethered—the design runs for a limited time
■ Tethered—requires a connection between your board and the host computer. If
tethered mode is supported by all megafunctions in a design, the device can
operate for a longer time or indefinitely
All megafunctions in a device time-out simultaneously when the most restrictive
evaluation time is reached. If there is more than one megafunction in a design, a
specific megafunction's time-out behavior may be masked by the time-out behavior of
the other megafunctions.
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For MegaCore functions, the untethered time-out is 1 hour; the tethered time-out
value is indefinite.
Your design stops working after the hardware evaluation time expires and the
local_ready
output goes low.