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Honored ContributorHi Pete,
there is another thread dealing with the (removed) device support. (http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42758&page=1) 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. 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... 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... I really wonder if in some years you have to have * 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 (nice brain practice to recall which feature has been introduced in which version or what workarounds were requried with the "old" QII) * 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) * more than one PC, if for example you cannot have the old OS installed on a PC connected to company network for safety reasons ... Well.. Future will tell
