Altera® FPGA Software Installation and Licensing

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Date 4/14/2025
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6.1. Additional Resources

Resource Description
Altera® Community - Altera® FPGA Software Installation & Licensing Forum Allows you to post queries and get responses to Altera® FPGA software installation and licensing issues.
Altera® FPGA Software Download and Installation Support page Provides high-level help to get started with the Altera® FPGA software installation and download.
Altera® FPGA Knowledge Base Provides links to applicable articles that span a variety of FPGA related issues.
Altera® FPGA Self-Service Licensing Center Provides support for licensing Altera® FPGA software.
Altera® FPGA Software License Troubleshooter Answers frequently asked questions about licenses.
AN 320: Using Altera® FPGA IP Evaluation Mode Describes the FPGA IP Evaluation Mode that allows you to evaluate licensed FPGA IP cores in simulation and hardware, before deciding to purchase a full production IP core license.
How to Setup Quartus® Prime Licenses YouTube* video that demonstrates how to setup Quartus® Prime licenses.
Setting up and debugging Quartus® Prime floating licenses YouTube* video that demonstrates how to set up and debug Quartus® Prime floating licenses.
Free IP Base Suite Licenses Provides a list of such free IP Base Suite licenses.

To help shorten your design time, Altera® provides full-production licenses for some of the most popular IP cores in the FPGA IP Base Suite, which is free with the Quartus® Prime software.

Altera® FPGA Licensing Support Center Provides information on license types, getting a license file, setting up a license file, and resolving license-related issues.
Quartus® Prime Pro and Standard Software User Guides Each user guide in the Pro Edition and Standard Edition collection covers a specific topic and is designed to help you easily and efficiently find the information you need to see your design through to completion.
Power and Thermal Calculator User Guide Describes the Power and Thermal Calculator (PTC). The current version of the PTC supports Agilex™ 3, Agilex™ 5, Agilex™ 7, and Stratix® 10 devices.
Advanced Link Analyzer User Guide Describes the Advanced Link Analyzer that is a state-of-the art jitter/noise eye link analysis tool. This tool allows you to quickly and easily evaluate high-speed serial link performance.
Questa*-Intel® FPGA Edition Quick-Start: Quartus® Prime Pro Edition User Guide Demonstrates how to simulate an Quartus® Prime Pro Edition design in the Questa*-Intel® FPGA Edition simulator.
Questa*-Intel® FPGA Edition Quick-Start: Quartus® Prime Standard Edition User Guide Demonstrates how to simulate an Quartus® Prime Standard Edition design in the Questa*-Intel® FPGA Edition simulator.
DSP Builder (Advanced Blockset): Handbook Describes DSP Builder, which is a high-level synthesis technology, that optimizes the high-level, untimed netlist into low-level, pipelined hardware for your target FPGA device and desired clock rate.
Get Started with the Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit for Linux* Provides Linux-specific getting started instructions for Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit.
FPGA AI Suite: Getting Started Guide

Provides an overview and installation instructions of FPGA AI Suite, and a process-walkthrough of running inference on a Resnet50 graph, including performance and area estimation.

Intel® SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite (SoC EDS) User Guide Describes the Intel® SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite (SoC EDS) comprehensive tool suite for embedded software development on Intel FPGA SoC devices.
Ashling* RiscFree* IDE for Altera® User Guide Describes the RiscFree* IDE for Altera FPGAs Arm-based HPS and Nios V processors.