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15 years ago

NIOS what am I using?

Hi all,

I'm using Nios II IDE version 9 to download software to hardware. I'm a software engineer not a firmware engineer. I am running the IDE on an old Linux box which was given to me pre-installed.

I would like to re-install that software on a new box running Ubuntu. I realise that Ubuntu is not supported. I have seen that there is software available to download and also read that Altera is moving away from IDE towards Eclipse. I'm a bit confused because I thought IDE was Eclipse.

How can I tell what software I have installed on my old Linux box?

Thanks for your help

Ant

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    15 years ago

    Thank you for your kind reply.

    I know where, why, when and how I don't know what to download.

    Ant
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    15 years ago

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    I found it rather misleading that they added such a large change in a incremental upgrade (9.0 to 9.1).

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    following Altera's versioning scheme, 9.0 to 9.1 is not a incremental update. a service pack is somewhat of an incremental upgrade, but even service packs can introduce new features, etc.
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    15 years ago

    since you already have Quartus, ModelSim-ASE, and Nios II EDS installed, i would go for the same package of the latest software. since you have Quartus II 9.0 on your machine it must be Subscription Edition since there was no web edition on Linux at that time. so on the following link download Quartus II 9.1sp2 for Linux, ModelSim-ASE for Linux, and Nios II EDS for Linux.

    https://www.altera.com/support/software/download/altera_design/quartus_we/dnl-quartus_we.jsp
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    15 years ago

    Nios II IDE is based on Eclipse, so is Nios II Software Built Tool for Eclipse. the old IDE was a customized version of Eclipse, the new SBT is an add on for Eclipse. this means you can update Eclipse independently of the Altera tools for bug fixes or other reasons.