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14 years agoIn Quartus as such Hardware Description Languages such as Verilog or VHDL are used. But Altera provides a nice environment for developing embedded systems that can be progammed by means of C. This is done in the Nios-II processor. Along with Nios-II you have a complete suite of tools by which you can IP-blocks and periferals. This can be done in the Qsys environment. (formerly SOPC).
A good start is http://www.altera.com/literature/tt/tt_nios2_hardware_tutorial.pdf