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18 years ago

quartus v 7.2 and apex 20K200E compatibile?

Hi. I found a university program board which is several years old lying around in a lab, APEX 20K200E and would like to use it with the current Quartus version 7.2 web edition. Is this two compati...
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18 years ago

Hello,

I can't say reagarding APEX20 support in web version, but having more than one Quartus version installed is no problem when using different directories, as suggested by the installation defaults.

However, there are a few details in Quartus project files not downwards compatible through all versions, e. g. in *.stp, *.qsf and *.vwf files. For that reason, you should keep copys of V5 project before overwriting project files with V7.2.

As far as I know, Quartus software doesn't offer yet a means to create downwards compatible files. This could be done manually, cause all of the rejected files have a readable text format.

Regards,

Frank