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Renyl
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3 years ago

To install Intel Quartus Prime in Mac OS

I am unable to install Intel Quartus Prime lite 17.1 version on my Mac System, since there are only two options given in the website one Windows Os and Linux OS. Kindly guide em on the installation...
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ak6dn
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3 years ago

There is no MacOS 'native' version of Quartus. They are Windows or Linux on X86 only.

To run on a Mac platform, you need to install the 3rd party Parallels software (see: https://www.parallels.com/ )

which will allow you to install Windows (or Linux) as a VM on your Mac system, and then you can install the Quartus software.

I don't believe the USB programmer dongle will work, you may need a real Windows platform to program physical devices.