Installation and Licensing

[hjlebbink]

Dear List,

I’ve just bought A Spartan-6 LX9 MicroBoard, Installed ISE 13.2, downloaded and installed the SDK device locked license, and tried to do my first tutorial: Spartan-6 LX9 MicroBoard Embedded Tutorial, Tutorial 1, creating an AXI-based Embedded System (v13.2.01).

Everything works fine until I come to the point:

“Double-click on Generate Top HDL Source in the Processes window.”

which fails with:

Started : "XPS Process: Generate Top HDL Source".

Release 13.2 - platgen Xilinx EDK 13.2 Build EDK_O.61xd (nt64)

Copyright (c) 1995-2011 Xilinx, Inc.  All rights reserved.

Command Line: platgen -p xc6slx9csg324-2 -lang verilog -stubgen

_/Xilinx/EDK_Tutorial/mb_system/mb_system.mhs

ERROR:EDK - INFO:Security:56 - Part 'xc6slx9' is not a WebPack part.

   INFO:Security:61 - The XILINXD_LICENSE_FILE environment variable is not set.

   INFO:Security:63 - The LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable is not set.

   INFO:Security:68 - Please run the Xilinx License Configuration Manager

          (xlcm or "Manage Xilinx Licenses")

          to assist in obtaining a license.

   ERROR:Security:9 - No 'XPS' feature was available for part 'xc6slx9'.

   ERROR:Security:12 - No 'xc6slx9' feature was available (-5).

   No such feature exists.

   Feature:       XPS

   License path:

   C:/.Xilinx\Xilinx.lic;C:\Xilinx\13.2\ISE_DS\ISE\/data\*.lic;C:\Xilinx\13.2\IS

   E_DS\ISE\/coregen/core_licenses\Xilinx.lic;C:\Xilinx\13.2\ISE_DS\ISE\/coregen

   /core_licenses\XilinxFree.lic;C:\Xilinx\13.2\ISE_DS\EDK/data/core_licenses\Xi

   linx.lic;

   FLEXnet Licensing error:-5,357.  System Error: 2 ""

My question: Is this supposed to work, what am I doing wrong, and how do I fix this?

I’ve made sure the MAC address in the SDK license is correct (by wasting 2 license relocations).  I'm completely stuck; some pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards, Henk-Jan

[austin]

Henk-Jan,

http://www.xilinx.com/tools/faq.htm

[hjlebbink]

Austin, thank you for your quick replay.

I indeed did check (before posting) whether something in the faq and mailinglist can close.

The XLCM has an SDK item as expected. The one thing I find suspicious is that the VENDOR_STRING henkjan@cs.uu.nl,6SLX9_MICRO_SDK,software,permanent,_204658752_210146207_210148235_109 has my old email address in it. Could that be the culprit.

Some (other) pointers are appreciated.

Kind regards,

Henk-Jan.

[graces]

Did you see "XPS" feature in XLCM?

[bhfletcher]

Please see the Avnet Forum for this board:

http://community.em.avnet.com/t5/Spartan-6-LX9-MicroBoard/License-error-while-trying-Tutorial-1/m-p/...

Bryan

[anatoli · Accepted solution]

Hello Henk-Jan,

The reason why you are getting this EDK error,​ i.e. ERROR:Security:9 - No 'XPS' feature was available for part 'xc6slx9' or “ERROR:EDK - A license was not found for the XPS Feature”,​ is because the license that came with your Spartan 6 LX9 MicroBoard Kit from Avnet (6SLX9_​MICRO_​SDK Nodelocked license),​ only supports the following features: SDK,​ ChipscopePro,​ PlanAhead and WebPACK features,​ but not XPS.

So,​ if you wish to successfully use XPS,​ you can either generate a 30-day evaluation license or would need to purchase a full license for ISE (i.e. System Edition license; or you may just purchase an EDK standalone license if you wish, and as I know it will cost you less than a full license and only supports XPS and SDK features).

A 30-day evaluation license allows you to target every Xilinx device and run all Xilinx applications (including bitstream generation). The limitation is that the license expires after 30-day.

You can generate the evaluation license from here: www.xilinx.com/​getlicenses.  Login and once you are in the Product Licensing page,​ here you will see what licenses you are entitled to,​ including a 30-day evaluation.

(Note, if you exhausted the alloted number of rehost chances, then you must contact Xilinx Customer Service in order re-enable the rehost option. You can reach the Xilinx Customer Service team directly by sending email to:

   North America:  isscs_cases@xilinx.com

   Europe:  eucases@xilinx.com   

   Asia (including Japan): apaccase@xilinx.com)

If you need the price list for the licenses,​ please contact the Xilinx Distributor in your area (i.e. for the list of distributors, please have a look here http://www.xilinx.com/company/contact/auth-disti-table.htm) and they will provide you the full price list.

Have a nice day.

Kind Regards,​

Anatoli

[hjlebbink]

Thank you Anatoli,

This explains it. For a newbie all the different tools from different vendors with different licenses can be quite confusing...

Regards

HJ!

[smsistemi]

Hello, I have a license for Spartan-6 FPGA SP605 Evaluation-Kit ISE Design Suite: Logic Device Locked Edition, Node Locked License.

I want copy my license.lic in SDK application. Why this isn't possible?

[anatoli]

Hello Pietro,

If you are trying to use this device Locked SP605_Logic_Edition license with SDK, then you won’t be able to use this tool with that particular license file, as SDK requires an “SDK” feature. SP605_Logic_Edition licenses only support the following feature:

ChipscopePro, ChipscopePro_SIOTK, PlanAhead, ISIM, etc.

But unfortunately not XPS or SDK and if you need to successfully use SDK, you can either generate a 30-day evaluation license (please see the previous posts above regarding this) or you would need to purchase a full license for ISE (e.g. System Edition license; or you may just purchase an EDK standalone license if you wish, and as I know it will cost you less than a full license and only supports XPS and SDK features).

Regards,

Anatoli