Stratix® 10 SX SoC Development Kit User Guide

ID 683303
Date 6/06/2024
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2.1. Installing Quartus® Prime Software

The Quartus® Prime design software is a multi-platform design environment that easily adapts to your specific needs in all phases of FPGA, CPLD, and SoC designs. The Quartus® Prime software delivers the highest performance and productivity for Altera® FPGAs, CPLDs, and SoCs.

Design software must enable dramatically increased design productivity in order to take advantage of devices with multi-million logic elements with increased capabilities that provide designers with an ideal platform to meet next-generation design opportunities.

The new Quartus® Prime Design Suite design software includes everything needed to design for Altera® FPGAs, SoCs and CPLDs from design entry and synthesis to optimization, verification and simulation. The Quartus® Prime Design Suite software includes an additional Spectra-Q® engine that is optimized for Stratix® 10 and future devices. The Spectra-Q® engine enables new levels of design productivity for next generation programmable devices with a set of faster and more scalable algorithms, a hierarchical database infrastructure and a unified compiler technology.

Quartus® Prime

The Quartus® Prime Design Suite software is available in three editions based on specific design requirements: Pro, Standard, and Lite Edition.

The Quartus® Prime Pro Edition is optimized to support the advanced features in Altera's next generation FPGAs and SoCs and requires a paid license.

Quartus® Prime Standard Edition includes the most extensive support for Altera's latest device families and requires paid license.

Quartus® Prime Lite Edition provides an ideal entry point to Altera's high-volume device families and is available as a free download with no license file required.

Included in the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition are the Quartus® Prime software, Nios® II EDS and the Altera FPGA IP Library.

To install Altera's development tools, download the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software from the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition page in the Download Center of Altera's website.