Licensing Model

Each hardware device that uses an VA IP Core is equipped with one runtime license. The costs of a runtime license are defined by the maximum sensor bandwidth, the number of FPGA resources that can be maximally used by the image processing application, and by the DRAM interface availability.

You can generate the runtime licenses yourself. For generating licenses, you get a dongle from Basler that works on a pay-per-use basis. On the dongle, a predefined number of utilization units (1 unit per runtime license) for a specific performance class is provided. When all units on the dongle have been consumed, you can buy a new allotment of units which is loaded onto the dongle. 

Your advantages of pay-per-use:

  1. No additional hardware on your device required

  2. Reliable protection of your intellectual property as the FPGA-internal serial number (DNA of FPGA) is incorporated into the license

  3. Easy integration of licensing into the production flow

You can select from the following performance classes:

Economy

Moderate Resources, no DRAM Interfaces

Bandwidth Classes

150 MB/s

500 MB/s

1000 MB/s

unlimited

Performance Class

E150

E500

E1000

EL

Sensor Bandwidth

Up to 150 MB/s

Up to 500 MB/s

Up to 1000 MB/s

unlimited

Available Resources

Up to 50.000 LUT4

Up to 100.000 LUT4

Up to 150.000 LUT4

Up to 200.000 LUT4

DRAM Interfaces

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

Not supported

eXtended

High Resources and Support of DRAM

Performance Class

X150

X500

X1000

XL

Sensor Bandwidth

Up to 150 MB/s

Up to 500 MB/s

Up to 1000 MB/s

unlimited

Available Resources

Up to 100.000 LUT4

Up to 300.000 LUT4

Up to 500.000 LUT4

Up to 750.000 LUT4

DRAM Interfaces

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Superior

Maximum Resources and Support of DRAM

Performance Class

S150

S500

S1000

SL

Sensor Bandwidth

Up to 150 MB/s

Up to 500 MB/s

Up to 1000 MB/s

unlimited

Available Resources

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

DRAM Interfaces

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported