Re:These designs are in bluespec (Score 1)

My research group has had a free academic license for almost 3 years now. I guess my idea of "enough hoops" might be different than yours, but I had to fill out a single piece of paper that included (I'm reading this off of the sheet that I scanned in and emailed to Bluespec) my institution, my address (twice, once for the institution and the other time for my shipping address, I guess that's a hoop), my name, my title, the date, my phone number and my email address. Oh, and the biggest hoop, my HostID for the FlexLM server.

Do I wish I could do this on the web? Sure. But, this took a total of 1 minute to print out the form, 1 minute to fill it out (I have my name, address, phone number and email address memorized so I might be faster at that than some) plus a couple of minutes to find one of my students to get the HostID from our license server (I don't know how to do those things anymore) then maybe a minute or two to scan and email. So 6 minutes tops of my time. Keys came back the same day. Sure, my student had to install the key, but that's pretty unavoidable.

So, I don't know what hoops you're talking about when you say "jump through enough hoops". I don't know of any other commercial licensed CAD software that is easier to get licenses for. State your name and maybe they can help you out.

Derek Chiou
assistant professor
University of Texas at Austin
Electrical and Computer Engineering