Create and Generate a License Key File - 2023.2 English

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The Product Licensing page is displayed.

Product vouchers for design tools and IP product licenses can be shipped with an AMD or partner development board or design kit. This places the corresponding design tools or IP product entitlement in the product entitlement table which you can use to generate a license key.

To add Evaluation and No Charge IP to the list of product entitlements, click the Search Now button in the Add Evaluation and No Charge IP Cores section of the page. This opens an IP product finder tool.

The following types of product entitlements are available:

• Full (purchased)
• No Charge
  Note: Full and No Charge licenses have a subscription period of one year.
• Evaluation
  Note: Design tool evaluation is for 30 days and IP evaluations are for 120 days.

  The Vivado Design Suite: 30-Day Evaluation License evaluation product entitlement provides access to all the capabilities in the Vivado Design Tools. This product entitlement is automatically included in your product licensing account.

Products with a status of Current are within their warranty period. Products with a status of Expired have a warranty period end date that has passed. If seats are available, licenses can be generated for either Current or Expired product entitlements.

This is for floating licenses only. All node-locked licenses are for one seat. The number of seats available for a product entitlement is automatically maintained by the system. The Requested Seats field is populated, by default, with zero, although you are allowed to enter any number up to the full number of seats remaining on the product entitlement. A product is removed from the product entitlement table once all seats have been generated.

For design tools, available seats represents the number of seats available for licensing over the total number of seats purchased. For IP, seats are managed according to the terms of the site-wide license agreement.

A new window is displayed where you define the product and system that you are generating the license for.

For floating certificate-based licenses, the first field is redundancy. A triple-redundant server configuration, also known as a triad, provides a fail over for the license manager software. As long as two of the three servers are running, the license manager can continue to run. This does not apply to node-locked licenses. The system information is pre-populated in the Host ID drop-down menu if you arrived at the Product Licensing Site from a link within the Vivado License Manager.

1. If you do not have pre-populated system information, or if you want to add a different host, click Select a Host and then click Add a Host.
   
   
2. Enter information about the host.

   The Host ID value uniquely identifies the machine to which your design tools or IP is licensed. You can choose a Host ID Type to be a MAC address, a hard drive serial number or a dongle ID.

   Note: Not all host ID types are supported for all operating systems. The easiest way to obtain your host ID is to run Vivado License Manager on the machine that serves as the license host.

Adding a comment to the license key makes it easier for the administrator to track the allocation of the design tools and IP product entitlements among users.