When you purchase a design tool edition or IP product from AMD, you are purchasing a license to use and receive updates for that product for one year. The license to use AMD design tools and IP products is managed through the use of product entitlements. A product entitlement determines the following:
- The product that was purchased
- The number of seats purchased
- The license type (certificate based, floating, or node-locked)
- The product subscription period (product updates are provided throughout the year)
- Full and No Charge licenses have a subscription period of one year
- Design tools evaluations are for 30 days
- IP evaluations are for 120 days
Generating a license from a product entitlement results in one or more license keys being generated by the website. When installed, the license keys enable the use of the design tools and IP that were purchased or are being evaluated. Your product entitlements and resulting license key files are managed in a product licensing account on the AMD website.
Product licensing accounts are specific to the individual listed on the AMD Software Purchase Order, who is either the end-user or administrator of the design tools. A single administrator can manage all purchases in the same product licensing account. Multiple accounts can be managed by different administrators within a company site, which is useful when multiple design teams work on different projects with separate budget pools.
AMD LogiCORE IP License Generation in the AMD Design Tools
Any LogiCORE IP and design tools entitlements you purchased appear in your list of entitled products when you log into the Product Licensing Site. Currently, all IP entitlements generate certificate-based licenses. Licenses for Evaluation and No Charge IP are available on the site in a separate area. You can now generate licenses for all your certificate-based design tools and IP in one pass. They are emailed to you in a single license file.