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13 years ago

How to use old version of Quartus tools (6.1)

Hello, I'm definitely a newbie, but trying to help a FW engineer load legacy code. I am trying to setup the Altra environment using the older 6.1 of NIOS and Quartus (on Windows XP), but I am runni...
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13 years ago

Hi:

Someone in their infinite wisdom at Altera, decided to remove all the legacy versions of Quartus from the FTP site. So to install this you'll either need to find the original CD's for 6.1 (When they were still shipping disks) or contact Quartus support and request a download and a license key.

As a consultant working for multiple customers I run into this problem often. We have gone to Virtual Machines to try to mitigate the issue but you still run into performance problems with that.

Pete