Altera® FPGA Software Installation and Licensing

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Date 9/29/2025
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3.2. Downloading Design-Specific Software Components

Altera® provides a complete suite of development tools for every stage of your design for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs), and System-on-a-Chip (SoC) FPGAs. You do not need to rerun the Quartus® Prime installation to install these tools separately. Using the Altera® FPGA suite of development tools, you can create a complex FPGA design as a hardware engineer, write software for an embedded processor as a software developer, model a digital signal processing (DSP) algorithm, or focus on system design.

Use the following table to explore design tools for each stage of your specific design journey:

Table 6.  Software for each Stage of the Design Journey
System Architecture Planning Board Development FPGA Interface Designing
Explore the Altera® FPGA devices and the design software through the Quartus® Prime Installer. Download the following tools using the Quartus® Prime Installer:
  • Power Thermal Analyzer
  • Advanced Link Analyzer
Download the following tools using the Quartus® Prime Installer:
  • Quartus® Prime software
  • Questa* Altera® FPGA Starter Edition
FPGA Application/Interconnect Designing Embedded Software Development High-level Design Development
Download the following tools using the Quartus® Prime Installer:
  • Quartus® Prime software
  • Questa* Altera® FPGA Starter Edition
Download the following tools: Download the following tools: