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• See the instructions documented in this link.

• If the license has been generated for a particular machine, the core can only be generated (using either XPS or Core Generator as appropriate) on that same machine.

To check on the licensing status for a specific core, run the xlicmgr command in a command shell window (Windows) or UNIX shell.

Type the command:

xlicmgr status

Review the output to verify that a license can be found for the desired product and has the correct level of licensing ("Hardware Evaluation" or "Full/Bought").

Details on how to run xlicmgr can be found here.

Sample Output:

---------- Core Name: opb_ethernet_v1_00_m Status: Invalid, the license expired on <04/24/2004>. Type: Bought Expiry Date: 04/24/2004 Path: C:\.Xilinx\Coregen\CoreLicenses\opb_ethernet_v1_00_m.lic ---------- Core Name: opb_ethernet_v1_01_a Status: Invalid, the license expired on <04/24/2004>. Type: Bought Expiry Date: 04/24/2004 Path: C:\.Xilinx\Coregen\CoreLicenses\opb_ethernet_v1_01_a.lic ---------- Core Name: pcix64_v5_0 Status: Valid Type: Bought Expiry Date: 04/25/2005 Path: C:\.Xilinx\Coregen\CoreLicenses\pcix64_v5_0.lic ---------- Core Name: pl4_v7_0 Status: Valid Type: Evaluation Expiry Date: 04/25/2005 Path: C:\.Xilinx\Coregen\CoreLicenses\pl4_v7_0.lic ---------- etc. ...

Add the core to your project (or MHS file), then from within the XPS GUI, right click on the IP core in the System tab in XPS and select "View CoreLicense Status" to view the license status information for that core and check for inconsistencies between the reported settings for the host ID, licensed product name and licensing level ("Hardware Evaluation" or "Full/Bought").

Click here to see what a license status dialog for a Hardware Evaluation license for an OPB PCI core would look like.

Open up the core in CORE Generator and review the license status dialog message that is displayed when the core customization GUI loads up to determine the licensing status. If you have a Full License installed, no dialog will be displayed.

To check on the status for a specific core, run the xlicmgr command in a command shell window (Windows) or UNIX shell:

xlicmgr status -c <feature_name>

where <feature_name> is the feature name for the product as indicated in the email with the attached core_licenses .zip file.

Details on how to run xlicmgr can be found here.

Sample output for PCI 64 Evaluation license (Windows):

xlicmgr status -c pci64_v3_0 Release 6.3i - Xilinx License Manager (xlicmgr) i+IP+73229 Copyright (c) 1995-2004 Xilinx, Inc. All rights reserved. Feature: pci64_v3_0 Status: Hardware Evaluation Expiry date: May-08-2005 Current host ID: "000d285c2803 00028a36f57a" License type: FLEXlm Built in search paths: h:\.Xilinx\Coregen\CoreLicenses;C:\.Xilinx\Coregen\CoreLi censes;C:/Xilinx\coregen\core_licenses

To check on the status for a specific core,run the xlicmgr command in a command shell window (Windows) or UNIX shell:

xlicmgr status

Details on how to run xlicmgr can be found here.

Sample xlicmgr output:

Feature: plb_gemac_v1_01_a Status: Valid Type: HardwareEvaluation Expiry Date: 06/30/2005 Path: C:\EDK_62i\data\core_licenses\plb_gemac_v1_01_a.lic --- Feature: aurora_v2 Status: Valid Type: Bought Expiry Date: Path: C:\.Xilinx\Coregen\CoreLicenses\aurora_v2.lic

The output in the example above indicates that the user has a "HardwareEvaluation" (Full System Hardware Evaluation) license installed for the core, "plb_gemac_v1_01_a", and a full, or "Bought" license for the aurora_v2_0 core.