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downarrowDoes ARM offer dongle based licenses?
Applies to: ARM Developer Suite (ADS), RealView Developer Suite (RVDS) 2.0, RealView Developer Suite (RVDS) 2.1, RealView Developer Suite (RVDS) 2.2, RealView Development Suite (RVDS) 3.0, RealView Development Suite (RVDS) 3.1, RealView Development Suite (RVDS) 3.1 Professional, Tool Licensing (License Management)

Not directly. Windows users can effectively have a license dongle by hosting a node-locked license to a removable network adapter. Typically this would be a USB or PCMCIA Ethernet device.

ARM tools licenses are locked to a specific machine using a host ID.  This can be a disk serial number, or an Ethernet address.  Locking a license to the Ethernet address of a removable device allows the license to be moved between machines, as it will work on whichever machine the adapter is currently connected to.

Note for ADS 1.1/1.0 users:
ADS 1.1 and 1.0 use an older version of FLEXlm than RVDS.  Although the same basic approach will work, there is an extra restriction.  The network adaptor must be connected to a network (e.g. have an Ethernet cable connected to it) before it is recognized by FLEXlm.






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