Installation and Licensing

[lars_ganrot@hotmail.com]

I've installed a floating license on my local computer, and the FLEXlm seems fine. "lmutil lmstat -a" lists all my tool licenses, however despite entering exactly the same license server as reported by lmutil in XLCM (XILINXD_LICENSE_FILE=2100@ASUS-U46S), it still does not recognize any of the features (only lists IPs, no tools). Dump from lmutil below:

C:\Users\Lars>c:\Xilinx\13.4\ISE_DS\ISE\bin\nt64\lmutil lmstat -a
lmutil - Copyright (c) 1989-2008 Acresso Software Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Flexible License Manager status on Fri 5/25/2012 11:27

[Detecting lmgrd processes...]
License server status: 2100@ASUS-U46S
    License file(s) on ASUS-U46S: c:\.Xilinx\Xilinx.lic:

 ASUS-U46S: license server UP (MASTER) v11.6

Vendor daemon status (on ASUS-U46S):

   xilinxd: UP v11.6
Feature usage info:

Users of System_Edition:  (Total of 1 license issued;  Total of 0 licenses in us
e)

Users of SDK:  (Total of 1 license issued;  Total of 0 licenses in use)

Users of ChipScopePro_SIOTK:  (Total of 1 license issued;  Total of 0 licenses i
n use)

....

[graces]

What does the following command return?

lmutil lmdiag -c 2100@ASUS-U46S ISE

[lars_ganrot@hotmail.com]

Hi,

It returns:

C:\Users\Lars>c:\Xilinx\13.4\ISE_DS\ISE\bin\nt64\lmutil lmdiag -c 2100@ASUS-U46S
 ISE
lmutil - Copyright (c) 1989-2008 Acresso Software Inc. All Rights Reserved.
FLEXnet diagnostics on Mon 5/28/2012 08:33

-----------------------------------------------------
License file: 2100@ASUS-U46S
-----------------------------------------------------
"ISE" v2013.06, vendor: xilinxd
  License server: ASUS-U46S
  floating license no expiration date

  TS_OK: Checkout permitted when client is using terminal client

This license can be checked out
-----------------------------------------------------

[graces · Accepted solution]

So it looks the license can be checked out.

If the license can actually be checked out but the feature doesn't show up in XLCM, it should be an XLCM issue.

You can open an example design and run through implementation to validate the license.

[lars_ganrot@hotmail.com]

That's interesting. When I run the example design through ISE, I'm not able to see ISE ever using the floating license (checking with lmutil), but I do get the bitstream, so it does seem to work.

Running EDK, which is where I started initially, I still get a "No License" pop-up, and then the tool starts XLCM. If I just close the XLCM and continue with XPS, I can take a BSB design all the way to a bitstream. In this case I do see both the XPS license and the ISE license being used when I run lmutil.

Since I see the XPS/ISE checked out, I guess I must be using the real floating license, and not some temporary evaluation license. The EDK XLCM pop-up fooled me...

Thanks for your help!