Licensing, Getting the license, Licensing -1 – Altera SoC Embedded Design Suite User Manual
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The SoC EDS is available with three different licensing options:
• Subscription edition
• Free web edition
• 30-day evaluation of subscription edition
The only tool impacted by the selected licensing option is the ARM DS-5 Altera Edition. All the other
tools offer the same level of features in all licensing options; for example, the preloader generator and the
bare-metal compiler offer the same features no matter which licensing option is used.
The main difference between the licensing options depends on which types of debugging scenarios are
enabled:
Licensing Option
Debugging Scenarios Enabled
Web edition
• Linux application debugging over ethernet
Subscription edition
30-day evaluation of the subscription edition
• JTAG-based Bare-Metal Debugging
• JTAG-based Linux Kernel and Driver
Debugging
• Linux Application Debugging over Ethernet
Getting the License
Depending on the licensing option, it is necessary to follow the steps detailed for each option to obtain the
license.
Subscription Edition - If you have purchased the SoC EDS Subscription Edition, then you have already
received an ARM license serial number. This is a 15-digit alphanumeric string with two dashes in
between. You will need to use this number to activate your license in DS-5, as shown in the Activating the
License section.
Free Web Edition - For the free SoC EDS Web Edition, you will be able to use DS-5 perpetually to debug
Linux applications over an Ethernet connection. Get your ARM license activation code from the SoC
Embedded Design Suite download page on the Altera website (
) and then
activate your license in DS-5, as shown in the Activating the License section.
30-Day Evaluation of Subscription Edition - If you want to evaluate the SoC EDS Subscription Edition,
you can get a 30-Day Evaluation activation code from the SoC Embedded Design Suite download page on
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