Intel Quartus Prime - everything you need to work with Intel FPGA

In 2015, Intel acquired Altera, one of the most famous FPGA and SoC developers. Gradually, all Altera products — both hardware and software — changed their name, in particular, Altera Quartus FPGA design software became known as Intel Quartus Prime . We often mentioned it in connection with the release of the next Intel FPGA, but never described in detail. Now there is time to do it, especially since since the name change, several large releases have already come out, bringing new functionality and support for new devices.

So, Intel Quartus Prime contains everything you need to design systems based on Intel FPGA, SoC and Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD), starting with the very basics and including further interaction debugging, optimization, verification and modeling. Currently, there are three delivery options for Quartus Prime:

• Intel Quartus Prime Pro Edition is designed to work with advanced FPGA and SoC options of the latest generation, such as Intel Stratix 10, Intel Arria 10, Intel Cyclone 10 GX.
• The Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition includes full support for devices of previous generations, as well as the Intel Cyclone 10 LP family.
• The Intel Quartus Prime Lite Edition is a tool for working with families of the mass segment, it can be downloaded for free without additional licensing.

Compatibility matrix for version 18.1 is as follows.

Now about the main functionality - again, with reference to different versions of Intel Quartus Prime. More information can be found on the product page .
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With the terms of licensing Intel Quartus Prime and its components, as well as their value, you can find on the Intel website .