| All variants now support for Gen3 PIPE mode using the  ModelSim® , NCSIM, and VCS simulators  |  
      Better visibility for Gen3 simulations. |  
     
 
      
      | All variants now support generation of predefined Signal Tap files for IP core debugging.  |  
      Simplifies generation and configuration of Signal Tap files for debugging.  |  
     
 
      
      | For the  Avalon®  Memory-Mapped (Avalon-MM) with DMA variant, rearchitected Write DMA module for the 128-bit interface to the Application Layer. This version is final in the 16.0 release.  |  
      Provides higher throughput for external memories.  |  
     
 
      
      | For the  Avalon® -MM with DMA variant, the 256-bit interface to the Application Layer now supports a maximum transfer size of 64 kilobyte (KB).  |  
      Large transfers require fewer descriptor table entries.  |  
     
 
      
      | For the Avalon Streaming (Avalon-ST) with Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) variant, rearchitected the SR-IOV bridge to support 4 Physical Functions (PFs) and 2048 Virtual Functions (VFs). This new version is preliminary in the 16.0 release.  |  
      Improves support for designs requiring more PFs and VFs. This new version is not backwards compatible with the previous 15.1 release.  |  
     
 
      
      | For the Avalon-ST with SR-IOV variant, added support for Address Translation Services (ATS) and TLP Processing Hints (TPH).  |  
      Support for SR-IOV.  |  
     
 
      
      | For the Avalon-ST with SR-IOV variant, added Control Shadow interface to read the current settings for some of the VF Control Register fields in the PCI and PCI Express Configuration Spaces.  |  
      Improves visibility for VFs. |  
     
 
      
      |  The Avalon-ST Streaming with SR-IOV variant now requires a license.  |  
      You must purchase a license for this variant to run in hardware that is not connected to a host computer running the  Quartus® Prime software.  |