The Vivado License Manager (VLM) is intended to assist with license generation for Certificate-based licenses only. The Vivado License Manager is installed with the Vivado Edition and many standalone tool installations. The following figure shows the VLM.
Figure 1.
Vivado License Manager
The typical tasks that Vivado License Manager is used for are:
- Obtaining A License
- Choose from several license options and go to the AMD Product Licensing Site to complete the license generation process.
- Viewing License Status
- See which licenses are visible to the local machine. This is a useful view for debugging licensing issues.
- Loading Licenses Onto a Local Machine
- After a certificate license (.lic) file has been received, it can be placed into the appropriate location on the machine. For step-by-step instructions, see the Installing Your License key section for your license type below.
- Viewing and Setting (Windows) License Search Locations
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Vivado tools look into several default
locations to try to find the authorization to run. If your license is located
elsewhere on the machine or on a floating license server, a path to that license
must be specified. Recommended: It is recommended that the XILINXD_LICENSE_FILE environment variable be used to specify AMD license file locations. LM_LICENSE_FILE can also be used, but is mainly intended for non-AMD or legacy license path use.