Quartus II Installation

Quartus II Programmer for Windows

• If you are planning to use Altera-supplied hardware (e.g. USB-Blaster) to upgrade the MCE firmware, you need to install "Quartus Programmer" on either a Windows or Linux PC.
• See the OS requirements here: http://www.altera.com/download/os-support/oss-index.html
  

Download Quartus here: https://www.altera.com/download/programming/quartus2/pq2-index.jsp

• Note that the installer needs direct access to Quartus website. In case you are behind a firewall, you may need to setup a proxy server.
• The installation is straight forward. After installation is complete, plug in the USB-Blaster and the driver is typically found under altera/10.0/quartus/driver.

Quartus II for Windows

• In a web browser, browse to ftp://ftp.altera.com/outgoing/release/
• Filenames to look for are of the form "91sp1_quartus_free.exe" if you don't have a license, or "91sp1_quartus_windows.exe" if you have a license.
• Double click on 'XX_quartus_windows.exe' and follow the extraction and installation instructions.

Quartus II for Linux

As usual, only RedHat and Seuse are officially supported and you are on your own if you install it on any other Linux distribution.

Troubleshooting Ubuntu Installation

Quartus 10.0 installed fine on Ubuntu and no tweaking was needed.

However, when installing Quartus 9.1 the installer couldn't find a few commands that typically exist on Fedora systems, notably arch and rpm. You can create a fake version of these and copy them under /usr/bin.

• Create a script called arch that contains:

uname -m

• Create a script called rpm that contains:

#!/bin/bash
OUT=/home/mce/rpm_cmd.txt
date >> $OUT
echo $@ >> $OUT

Make sure the permissions are set to executable.

More tips here: http://fpga4u.epfl.ch/wiki/Install_Quartus_II#On_Linux

Launching Quartus

After installation is complete, add the Quartus path to $PATH (probably in .bashrc), e.g.:

PATH=$PATH:/opt/usr/local/lib/altera/10.0/quartus/bin
export PATH

License Manager

If you have only installed Quartus Programmer or Quartus II web edition, the following section does NOT apply to you. However, if you have installed the "Quartus Subscription Edition", then continue reading.

You need to have a license file from Altera. The license file needs to be modified as follows. Change the top few lines from:

SERVER <hostname> 001e90151053 <port number>
VENDOR alterad <path to daemon executable>
VENDOR mgcld <path to daemon executable>
USE_SERVER

to

SERVER mce-ubc-2 001e90151053 1700
DAEMON alterad /opt/altera91/quartus/linux64/alterad
DAEMON mgcld /opt/altera91/modelsim_ase/linux/mgls/lib/mgcld
USE_SERVER

Copy the license file in /opt/licenses/quartus_001e90151053.dat

The license manager can be invoked by:

sudo /opt/altera10.0sp1/quartus/linux/lmgrd -c /opt/licenses/quartus_001e90151053.dat

You can add this line (without the sudo) into /etc/rc.local to get it to start whenever the computer boots.

When this works, it should spit out messages like this:

8:38:25 (lmgrd) Started alterad (internet tcp_port 52255 pid 28888)
8:38:25 (lmgrd) Started mgcld (internet tcp_port 54712 pid 28889)
8:38:25 (alterad) FLEXlm version 9.50
8:38:25 (alterad) lmgrd version 11.4, alterad version 9.5

8:38:25 (mgcld) FLEXnet Licensing version v10.8.5.0 build 31891 i86_r6
8:38:25 (mgcld) lmgrd version 11.4, mgcld version 10.8

8:38:25 (mgcld) Server started on mce-ubc-2 for:	alteramtivsim	
8:38:25 (mgcld) 
8:38:25 (mgcld) Licenses are case sensitive for mgcld
8:38:25 (mgcld) 
8:38:25 (mgcld) EXTERNAL FILTERS are OFF
8:38:25 (lmgrd) mgcld using TCP-port 54712
8:38:25 (alterad) Server started on mce-ubc-2 for:	maxplus2	
8:38:25 (alterad) quartus		6AF7_0012	6AF7_0014	
8:38:25 (alterad) 6AF7_0055	6AF7_00A7	6AF7_00A8	
8:38:25 (alterad) 6AF7_00A4	6AF7_0034	6AF7_00AC	
8:38:25 (alterad) 6AF7_00AD	6AF7_00BE	6AF7_00BF	
8:38:25 (alterad) 6AF7_00C2	maxplus2verilog maxplus2vhdl	
8:38:25 (alterad) altera_mainwin_lnx altera_mainwin	6AF8_00A2	
8:38:25 (alterad) 6AF7_00A2