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10 years ago

Comparison between versions of Quartus II

Hi, I am new to Altera FPGAs. What is the difference between Pro, Standard and Lite editions of Quartus II? Also What is the Altera equivalent of Xilinx Chipscope? Thanks, Arvind Gupta...
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10 years ago

Quartus 13.1 is the last version that will run on Windows XP 32b and Windows 7 32b (and it will run on Windows 7 64b also).

Quartus 14.0 and later require Windows 7 64b (not 32b) and later (Windows 8.1).

Quartus 16.0 is the first version that will run on Windows 10 64b (also will run on Windows 7/8.1 64b).

So if you have to run on WinXP 32b you will need to download the 13.1 version of Quartus. Or else upgrade to Windows 7 64b (or 8.1 64b).

Personally I am on Windows 7 64b (and expect to be for a long time) so I can run 13.0sp1 which is the last version to support CycloneII, and also run 16.0 for newer CycloneV series.