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Is anybody else completely dissatisfied with this new forum?
This used to be a robust forum, lots of new questions everyday and, most impotantly, lots of responses. This new forum is clunky and time consuming to navigate. Nobody seems interested anymore. I used to check-in everyday to see what's new. Not any more.
Repeat of a Questa License Issue
Questa licenses generated since approximately January 29 (the last date I was able to help a student configure a properly generated license) have contained the following message in place of what I presume is the normal license key: ################################################################################ # FEATURE START # This is license file for Questasim*-Intel FPGA Starter Edition # Number of seat licenses is 1 # License Expires 02-Feb-2027 300 Your license version is outside the range of the contract. # FEATURE END ################################################################################ # End of Intel Corporation Software and/or Intellectual Property License File. Issued 02/02/2026 This appears to be the same thing that happened in December 2025, and may be a sign that the licensing site is down or suffering some issue. Questa License Issue | Altera Community - 247818 Any advice would be appreciated.
OMG. What did you think?
As there doesn't seem to be any dedicated feedback forum for forum issues anymore, I post here to express my complete dissatisfaction with the new 'solution': Although the old Altera forums weren't especially fast and user friendly, the new one appears to me as huge quantum leap. Backwards. It's awfully slow, apparently buggy (messages about Javascript blocking the browser everywhere), pages constantly displaying busy indicators. Long story short: I consider it completely useless in it's current state. If you want to get rid of your trusty Altera customers, this is a perfect way to do so...Quartus programmer for Linux ARM / ARM64
Hi Intel, Would it be possible to support the quartus programmer on linux for arm and arm64 platforms? In our lab we have several raspberrypi's for remote debugging of systems. We use them for serial consoles, power cycling devices or simple digital IO. This makes remote debugging and testing possible from behind our desk while the physical hardware is in the lab. The only thing we are missing is the possiblity to hookup a USB-blaster to get access to signaltap instances or use the nios debugger. We can use a regular PC in the lab and connect to the Jtag-server running on it, but this is not as flexible as a small single board computer like the raspberrypi is. Would it be an idea to support the arm / arm64 architecture for the quartus programmer, or just the jtag-server? Kind regards, Rienk de Jong
Is https://fpgasoftware.intel.com down?
Hi, I am trying to access https://fpgasoftware.intel.com, in order to download a version of Quartus. Nevertheless, I am not able to do so as it seems that the site is down. I tried using my account from 2 different browsers, Firefox and Safari. Is this the case or is it only from my side? Thanks, Nassos
Quartus download site broken
If you visit http://fpgasoftware.intel.com/, the website seems to be completely broken. If you try to sign in using the sidebar by clicking "sign in" in the top right, the sign in button literally does nothing. If you click a download button and sign in on the page you're redirected to, you get a page that just says "errors: invalid response".Diagnosing Congestions
Hello, our Arria 10 design suffers from routing congestions. We used the "Top Congested Nets" report to identify critical nets and reworked the design, e.g. by manual register replication, pipelining etc. Despite the elimination of several high-fan-out nets, routing still fails with congestions. Since we have seen designs containing nets with significantly higher number of overused nodes and fan-outs, we are questioning our metrics. How can we diagnose the root cause of router congestions? Please find attached the archived project. Best regards, NickFritzsche