DESL: Quartus

The DESL labs depends heavily on the use of commercial software for both design circuits and compiling software into a process. Courses use Altera's Quartus II Version 15 and associated Nios II development kit. You will be able to access it in one of four ways:

Your own home computer
Windows machines in the DESL
Linux workstation lab
ECF PC systems

1. On your own home computer.

This software requires a Windows 7 computer with at least 8 Gbyte of physical RAM.

myAltera

myAltera account this form asks for your name and address. You can use:
University of Toronto as the company
10 kings College Rd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3G4 as the address
If you do not wish to use your own address.

Once you have acquired this account, follow this proceedure to install Quartus on your home computer;
go to the main Altera web page. Altera home page
Select download , which is located at top of web page
Select Archive > Design Software, which is located top left side of the main web page.

NOTE Only versions of Quartus less then version (13) will work with the DE2 or DE1 board. The version used in the DESL lab is 11.1 SP2.

To install version 11.1 SP2 do the following:
Scroll down to Quartus II Web Edition.
Download 11.1 and SP2 to your computer. First install 11.1 followed by SP2.
Download ModelSim-Altera Starter 10.0C and then SP 10.0C . They are located in the column next to Quartus II Web Edition. First install ModelSim_Altera Starter 10.0C followed by SP 10.0C.
Download NIOS II EDS 11.1 and SP2 . This is the column next to ModelSim-Altera Starter. First install 11.1 followed by SP2.
Once fully installed you will have Quartus, NIOS, and Modelsim Starter. All programs do not need a license to run

You have now completed the home installation of all files .

2. On the Windows Machines in the DESL.

Bahen 3135, 3145, 3155 and 3165 There are a total of 104 Windows 7-based machines running on DEll Optiplex 9020 (Intel core i7 - 4790 processor), 16Gbit memory platform. These will have the latest release of enterprise Altera software installed on them (not the Web version). These machines will have access to your home directory on the ECF file server.

3. On the ECE Workstation Systems

The Unix version of the enterprise Quartus is installed on the ECE Debian Linux Boxes, in Rooms GB251e,GB243,SF2102 and SF2204. You will need to get an ECE account on that system. You can request an ECE account by going to GB249.
type quartus.start at the prompt

4. On the ECF PC Systems

Quartus is available on the ECF Windows PC systems. You can use the same account as you use in the DESL labs to access your home directory.