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Hi folks,
I don't know what to do anymore. First I downloaded the newest Version of Quartus II just to notice that it doesn't support the
cyclone i. Then I downloaded the 13.0 version and after another 10Gb I noticed that it isn't just a 30days trial , but also can't generate output files.
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The Cyclone series are supported by the free web editions ... I just fired up 12.1sp1 (full-edition) and it still has Cyclone I support.
I don't recall when support was dropped, but if you go to the download center, there is an option to select software by device
https://www.altera.com/download/sw/dnl-sw-index.jsp and (strangely), there it says web edition dropped Cyclone I at 11.0sp1. I guess they drop support sooner in the free version.
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I'm a physicist and most of the time I build something with vacuum tubes, sometimes with parts from before WW2.
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Awesome! I "rescued" a few thousand tubes that I have lying around in boxes that I must look at some day ...
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At the moment it is my job to tell a very little bit about FPGAs to a small group of people.
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What do you need to tell them about?
Click on some of the links here ...
http://www.ovro.caltech.edu/~dwh/correlator/cobra_docs.html http://www.ovro.caltech.edu/~dwh/carma_board/index.html http://www.ovro.caltech.edu/~dwh/wbsddc/index.html The zip files have PowerPoint slides you can use.
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Geeeeeeezzzz is it the same with Xilinx or Lattice ?
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Yep. Xilinx has two tools, Vivado and ISE, whereas for Lattice I think I have used at least three tools, Diamond, ispLevel, and another tool for the devices they picked up from Silicon Blue.
Ignore the tools. They're ok. Make your FPGA selection based on the support groups. This one is good, so you made the right vendor choice :)
Cheers,
Dave
Honored Contributor
