Licensing - 2021.1 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Release Notes, Installation, and Licensing (UG973)

Document ID
UG973
Release Date
2021-06-16
Version
2021.1 English

The Vivado 2021.1 and beyond releases introduce the following changes in licensing that are listed below:

  • Flexera version for license management tool has been upgraded to 11.17.2.0.
  • Anyone using floating license will require to upgrade licensing utilities to Flex 11.17.2.0. These new licensing utilities are available on the Xilinx Downloads Website.
Note: Flex version upgrade does not affect valid license files, in other words, existing valid license files will work with the Vivado 2021.1 release after you upgrade the licensing utilities.