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Quartus® Prime Design Software

The Altera Quartus Prime software with fast compile times accelerates FPGA development for larger designs benefiting from even greater reductions

Image of Altera Quartus® Prime Design SoftwareThe Altera Quartus Prime software delivers improvements across the three key areas designers care about most: performance, productivity, and usability. It supports the latest Agilex™ 7 and Agilex 5 FPGA and SoC families, ensuring a seamless development experience for cutting-edge applications. Support for the Agilex 3 FPGAs and SoCs family, as well as the MAX 10 FPGA with package options that load 485 I/Os into a 19 x 19 mm2-sized package, is now available for download.

Fast compile times allow designers to accelerate FPGA development with larger designs benefiting from even greater reductions. Enhanced compiler optimizations also significantly reduce peak virtual memory requirements, ensuring most FPGA designs compile within 64 GB of memory. Additional settings for reducing compile time are available in the compiler user guide.

Quartus Prime software introduces concurrent analysis support, enabling designers to analyze results — timing, netlist views, and compilation reports — while the compilation is still running. Partial reconfiguration (PR) allows dynamic updates to sections of the FPGA. At the same time, the rest of the design continues to function, and the design assistant helps catch potential design issues early by providing real-time guidance and recommendations, improving overall design quality and efficiency.

Designers can leverage cloud-based Quartus FPGA programming tools, available in Docker Hub containers, for high-performance application acceleration in a cloud computing environment. Learn more through the resources provided below.

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Features
  • Fast compile time – Optimized synthesis and place-and-route algorithms reduce design compilation time, with larger designs benefiting the most
  • Extended no-cost IP licensing – Includes Nios® V and other IPs, with auto-fetch capabilities for easy integration
  • Reduction in peak virtual memory usage – Improved memory efficiency ensures most designs compile in less than 64 GB of memory
  • Machine-learning-based estimation – AI-driven post-synthesis area estimation improves design accuracy and optimization
  • Board IP presets – Predefined settings for interfaces like DisplayPort™, PCIe® with PIO, and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) with network-on-chip (NoC), streamlining system design
  • Pre-compiled simulation libraries – Expands pre-compiled components, reducing compile time and improving simulation efficiency
  • Enhanced embedded software development – Improved toolsets and workflows for embedded software engineers
  • NoC visualization and cycle-accurate NoC simulation models – Better representation of links, switches, and congestion for optimized NoC designs
  • Available in Docker containers – Enables flexible development environments with cloud-based FPGA compilation support
  • Nios V processors – Altera enhanced RISC-V-based soft processors with improved performance, reduced resource utilization, and new architectural features
Applications
  • Design assistants – Provides real-time design-rule checking to help close timing fast and improve overall design quality
  • Quartus exploration dashboards – Visualization and debugging tools for better project insights
  • Design space exploration – Tools to evaluate multiple design configurations and optimize for power, performance, and resource usage
  • Advanced link analyzers – Updated support for F-tile FHT and FGT transceivers, along with an enhanced platform/simulation engine
  • PR – Dynamically update sections of an FPGA while the rest of the design continues to function
  • Signal tap logic analyzers – Embedded debugging tool for real-time signal monitoring and in-system verification

Quartus® Prime Design Software

ImageManufacturer Part NumberDescriptionAvailable QuantityPriceView Details
QUARTUS PRIME ONE QUESTA-INTELSW-ONE-QUARTUSQUARTUS PRIME ONE QUESTA-INTELAvailable$30,005.80View Details
Published: 2025-05-05

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