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Altera_Forum
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18 years agoHi,
Yes, you're right. ALTERA only support the whole installation for 7.1sp1, a 600M+ huge file, which is quite inconvenient for us. For the new features, it is said in the following link: http://www.altera.com/support/software/quartus2/design_flow/des-qms-q21.html Quartus 7.1sp1: Adds pin-out support for all Stratix® III devices Adds pin-out support for all ArriaTM GX devices Adds POF support for the following Arria GX devices: EP1AGX20, EP1AGX35, EP1AGX50, EP1AGX60, EP1AGX90 Adds POF support for the Cyclone® III EP3C120 device Adds new ball-grid array (BGA) package support for Cyclone III devices 256-pin, 0.8-mm Ultra FineLine BGA (U256) 484-pin, 0.8-mm Ultra FineLine BGA (U484) Quartus II Web Edition software adds support for the Cyclone III EP3C5 device As we can see, it contains mainly about the support for new devices. If you do not care much about those, hold version 7.1 as you wish. enjoy, olivercamel