Quartus® Prime Pro Edition: Version 25.1 Software and Device Support Release Notes

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1. Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Version 25.1 Software and Device Support Release Notes
1. Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Version 25.1 Software and Device Support Release Notes x
1.1. New Features and Enhancements 1.2. Changes to Software Behavior 1.3. Altera IP Regeneration 1.4. Operating System Support 1.5. Disk Space and Memory Recommendations 1.6. Quartus® Prime Licensing Information 1.7. Device Support and Pin-Out Status 1.8. Timing Model, Power Model, and Device Model Status 1.9. Altera® FPGA SDM Firmware 1.10. IBIS Models 1.11. EDA Interface Information 1.12. Antivirus Verification 1.13. Software Issues Resolved 1.14. Software Patches Included in this Release 1.15. Latest Known Quartus® Prime Software Issues 1.16. Latest Known Altera® FPGA SDM Firmware Issues 1.17. Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software and Device Support Release Notes Archives 1.18. Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software Release Version 25.1 Document Revision History
1.2. Changes to Software Behavior x
1.2.1. Deprecated Features and Functions 1.2.2. Removed Features and Functions
1.7. Device Support and Pin-Out Status x
1.7.1. Devices with Final Device Support 1.7.2. Devices with Preliminary Device Support 1.7.3. Devices with Advance Device Support 1.7.4. Changes in Device Support
1. Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Version 25.1 Software and Device Support Release Notes

1.2. Changes to Software Behavior

This section documents instances in which the behavior and default settings of the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software have been changed from earlier releases of the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software.
Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Version 25.1 introduces the following changes:
  • The default installation directory has changed:
    • On Windows operating systems, the default installation directory is now C:\altera_pro\<Quartus_version> .
    • On Linux operating systems, the default installation directory is now $HOME/altera_pro/Quartus_version .
  • Some parts of the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition suite have changed names:
    • Intel FPGA IP products are now Altera IP products.

      The names of individual IP products will be updated over time to reflect this new name.

    • Ashling* RiscFree* IDE for Intel FPGA is now Ashling* RiscFree* IDE for Altera.
    • DSP Builder for Intel FPGAs is now DSP Builder.
    • Intel FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator is now Power and Thermal Calculator.
  • For simulation with Synopsys* VCS*, the " VCS MX " tool flow is now referred to as the " VCS (3-step) flow ". The " VCS " tool flow is now referred to as " VCS (2-step) flow ".
For a list of all the default assignment settings for the latest version of the Quartus® Prime software, refer to the Quartus® Prime Default Settings File (.qdf):
  • Linux* operating systems: <Quartus Prime installation directory>/quartus/linux64/assignment_defaults.qdf
  • Windows* operating systems: <Quartus Prime installation directory>/quartus/windows64/assignment_defaults.qdf

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Deprecated Features and Functions
Removed Features and Functions

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