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LChow3
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3 years ago

Cyclone II device

My institution has a Cyclone II family, the device number is EP2C20F484C7. Is it only Quartus V.13 can program this Cyclone II device? I have also installed Quartus V.20, but I couldn't find Cyclo...
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_AK6DN_
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3 years ago

Correct, QuartusII Web 13.0sp1 is the last and now only available version of Quartus that supports the CycloneII family.
I run it on my current Windows 10 system and it works just fine. It also works on Windows7 64b. And there is a linux version also.
Any later version of Quartus like 16, 17, 18, etc does not support CycloneII.

As far as development boards, TerAsic in Taiwan has a large number of Intel/Altera boards over a wide price range.
You can get boards anywhere from US$50 to US$25,000 depending on the technology they contain.
You can see them here: https://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=13&List=Simple

They do offer educational discounts for some boards. See their website for details.

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LChow3
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3 years ago

Unfortunately I got the Fatal Error below. This is the v.13.0.1.232 (sp1)

I only have Cyclone II device, therefore, I couldn't use new version of Quartus. Kindly advice how to solve this. Thank you.

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    _AK6DN_
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    3 years ago

    You can't use Windows 11 to run such old software as QuartusII 13.0sp1.

    Either find a Windows 10 or Linux box to run it on, or you will need to move to the latest version of Quartus,
    and buy new hardware, as the CycloneII family stopped being supported in 13.0sp1.