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Both Cyclone II and Quartus II 13.0 are still supported by Altera. If someone's having trouble installing v13.0, try opening a mySupport request with Altera for us to fix it (after checking the normal readme files, etc).
Cyclone II has not had any significant improvements in Quartus II in years, and most (if not all) of the new features in the latest versions would not support or enhance CII in any way. What kinds of "roadmap" are you looking for?
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Let me explain our situation. We have installed Quartus 11.1 on our machines. The install was done by our wonderful IT-service some time ago. This is the subscription edition. We had tested the install over and over again until it finally worked (there are over 350 software packages our school maintains, we use package-maintaining software and distribute only the PCs which should have Quartus installed). It took us three months or so. So we don't want to install every time there's a new version.
Our students have new laptop of their own with windows 8. They install always the latest version, as it should contain the least of bugs. Versions before v13 give some
trouble with installing the device driver (signed etc). Now we could tell them to install 12.1 or 13.0, but they claim that the latest is latest is always the better one and some things might not work on win8 or future versions of windows (win9, win10, ...)
Our roadmap is to use DE2-70 and DE0 boards for some years on. We cannot buy new boards every year. A school needs 20,30,40 boards and not just one.
Anyway, why is it a problem to include the CII in v13.1? And why skip support in the middle of major version? Oh, and please revert the RTL viewer to a previous version. The schematic it creates in v13.x look horrible. The one of v11 look good, I can use the schematics in my slides. And my students ask over and over if OSx will be supported in the future. It's a Unix after all ;-)
Greets,
Jesse op den Brouw
Honored Contributor
