WHAT IS ALTERA QUARTUS II INSTALL
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WHAT IS ALTERA QUARTUS II SOFTWARE

As mentioned above, Quartus II V13.0sp1 will continue to be provided, updated, and maintained for the foreseeable future, and will thus continue to provide full support for the DE1 and DE2 boards. This is the reason why universities that are using the DE1/DE2 boards should continue to use Quartus II V13.0sp1.

WHAT IS ALTERA QUARTUS II SOFTWARE

The Quartus II software starting from version 13.1 does not include support for the Cyclone II family of FPGAs, which are used on the DE1 and DE2 boards. Universities that are using the DE1 and/or DE2 boards should continue to use Quartus II V13.0sp1, as explained below. Although new versions of the Quartus II software will be developed and released each year by Altera, Quartus II V13.0sp1 will continue to be maintained and updated for the foreseeable future. Quartus II version 13.0sp1 supports all Altera University Program FPGA boards, which includes: DE0, DE0-Nano, DE1, DE2, DE2-115, DE3, DE4, and DE5-Net. We are writing to provide some important information about the released versions of Altera's Quartus II software, and whether these versions support the Altera University Program Development and Education FPGA boards that are used by many universities. Since this info is in the same vein, I'll post it inline (I received this yesterday) * more than one PC, if for example you cannot have the old OS installed on a PC connected to company network for safety reasons * more than one Operation system installed if the newest QII (required for the new HW) does not work on older versions of the OS and vice versa (or use Virtual machines if possible) (nice brain practice to recall which feature has been introduced in which version or what workarounds were requried with the 'old' QII) * a bunch of versions of QII if you have more than one hardware if each device family gets an own edition / old devices are not supported in new QII like new devices are not in old QII I really wonder if in some years you have to have I'm not really happy with dropping device support and the newest 'trend' of device specific versions like the 'Arria 10 Edition' makes me headache. As ALTERA (and others) did announce shorter compilation times and added features in newer versions, this advertisements are useless if you can't use the SW at all.

WHAT IS ALTERA QUARTUS II UPDATE

Up to now it seems like you really have to either update all your hardware at time ALTERA decides to drop the device support (likewise with Cyclone II and QII 13.1) or keeping the hardware is keeping the latest QII version supporting this device. There is another thread dealing with the (removed) device support. IE when installing a Service Patch, often the devices are updated as well. This would also fix the issue where your quartus and devices versions don't match.

WHAT IS ALTERA QUARTUS II INSTALL

Why should I have to install 2 versions Quartus 13.1 just because I want to play with some Arria 10's? Much better, have the Arria 10 listed, and if I select it for a design, it downloads the specific parts device files. Having version of the software for specific families is also not a good idea. Don't remove a device from support, until the devices can no longer be purchased. I would much rather have a 5 minute penalty the first time I use a new device instead of downloading multiple GB of devices I'll never use, then having to maintain multiple versions of Quartus to keep some legacy devices supported. You are creating a nightmare for companies having to deal with legacy and new development. But a MUCH better solution is to have Quartus automatically download the specific device files from a repository when you want to use them, instead of removing them completely. If there are any Altera Software managers viewing this: I understand why you want to remove the devices from the software for download size. Altera has started dropping legacy family support from the latest versions of Quartus.

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