2.1. Hardware Requirements
The requirements in this section attempt to summarize the hardware requirements for each software package required for a full development environment for authoring IP components with Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit and Intel® Quartus® Prime. For detailed requirements, refer to the documentation for each software package.
Disk Space Requirements
A typical development environment for authoring IP components requires between 80-179 GB of disk space1. The disk space required depends on the FPGA device support you want and your operating system. The space requirements can broken down as follows:
- A minimal installation of the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software without device support requires between 29-36 GB of disk space, depending on the operating system.
Device support requires an additional 3-36 GB of disk space, depending on the device family. Device support for all devices that an IP authoring development environment can target requires approximately 77 GB of disk space.
The Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition installer might need up to 134 GB of additional temporary disk space for the download and decompression of the installation package TAR file.
For details about Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition disk space requirements, refer to the download page for Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Design Software:
- Questa*- Intel® FPGA Edition requires approximately 29 GB of disk space.
For Siemens* EDA Questa* Advanced Simulator disk space requirements, refer to your documentation from Siemens* EDA.
- The minimum required installation of the Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit requires approximately to 6 GB of disk space.
The Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit installer might need up to 6 GB of additional temporary disk storage to manage the download and intermediate installation files.
A full installation of the Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit requires up to 24 GB of disk space.
For details about the Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit disk space requirements, refer to Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit System Requirements
- Visual Studio* Code requires less than 500 MB of disk space.
For details, refer to Requirements for Visual Studio* Code .
- A typical Visual Studio* installation with a C++ workload suitable for working with the Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit and Intel® Quartus® Prime requires approximately 12 GB of disk space.
For details, refer to the systems requirements page for your version of Visual Studio* :
Memory Requirements
The memory requirements for your development environment are driven by the FPGA devices that you want to target:
| Target FPGA Device | Maximum Physical RAM Requirement |
|---|---|
| Intel® Agilex™ | 64 GB |
| Intel® Arria® 10 | 48 GB |
| Intel® Stratix® 10 | 64 GB |
- Virtual Memory Requirements
- Configure your system to provide additional virtual memory equal to the recommended physical RAM. This additional virtual memory effectively doubles the total effective memory available to process your design.
For details of the memory requirements for your device or devices, refer to the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition Software and Device Support Release Notes .
1 This estimate does not include disk space required for Python.