Agilex™ 5 FPGA E-Series 065B Modular Development Kit User Guide

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Date 7/12/2024
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2.1. Quartus® Prime Software and Driver Installation

Quartus® Prime design software is a multiplatform 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. Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software is optimized to support the advanced features in next-generation FPGAs and SoCs with the Agilex™ 5, Agilex™ 7, Stratix® 10, Arria® 10 and Cyclone® 10 GX device families.

Agilex™ 5 FPGA E-Series 065B Modular Development Kit includes on-board Intel® FPGA Download Cable circuits for FPGA and system MAX® 10 programming. However, for the host computer and board to communicate, you must install the Intel® FPGA Download Cable driver on the host computer. Installation instructions for the Intel® FPGA Download Cable driver for your operating system are available on the Intel website.

On the Intel website, navigate to the Cable and Adapter Drivers Information link to locate the table entry for your configuration and click the link to access the instructions.

The Intel SoC EDS is a comprehensive software tool suite for embedded software development on Altera SoC devices. It contains development tools, utility programs, run-time software, and application examples to expedite firmware and application software of SoC embedded systems.

As a part of the Intel SoC EDS, the Arm* Development Studio for Intel SoC FPGA provides a comprehensive set of embedded development tools for Altera's SoC FPGAs.

For more information and steps to install the Intel SoC EDS Tool Suite, refer to the links below.