Embedded Software Developer Center

Software development resources for SoC FPGAs and Nios® V soft intellectual property (IP) processors.

Embedded Resources

Step-by-step guides that are customized for a specific development role and resource materials that provide instructions on how to get started, comprehensive documentation, community design examples, and technical support resources.

Altera FPGA Developer

This site provides key developer information for the Agilex™, Stratix 10®, Cyclone®, and Arria® device families including:

SoC Bare-Metal Developer

The SoC FPGAs Resource Center provides everything you need to get started with SoC FPGAs, including links to: reference designs, application reports, how-to videos, white papers, design service network partners, webinars, articles, training, and more.

SoC Bootloader

  • Bare-metal considerations and alternatives
  • Instructions for creating, building, and debugging bare-metal projects
  • Use Arm* Development Studio Intel SoC FPGA Edition
  • Use Hardware Abstraction Library (HWLibs)
  • Bare-metal project examples

Additional Embedded Resources

Embedded designers can take advantage of additional embedded resources listed below.

Nios V Processor Developer

  • Hardware abstraction layer (HAL) library for Nios V processor
  • Using HAL library for creating bare-metal projects
  • Backward compatible with Nios II processor's HAL library
  • Ashling RiscFree IDE for Altera FPGAs
  • Available design examples

Legacy Embedded Resources

Nios II Bare-Metal Developer

  • Available SoC bootloaders
  • Licensing considerations
  • Advantages of each bootloader
  • Additional reference materials

Nios II Soft Processor

The Nios II soft processor adds flexibility to all FPGA designs.

Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL™

Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL enables software developers to accelerate their applications by targeting heterogeneous platforms with Intel CPUs and FPGAs.