Quartus II Installation

This page describes the proceedure for installing the latest version of Quartus II and the version of ModelSim AE that is available along with it.

Check Quartus II Requirements

https://www.altera.com/support/software/download/sof-download_center.html

Download Quartus II

• In a web browser, browse to ftp://ftp.altera.com/outgoing/release/
• Filenames to look for are of the form "xx_quartus_free.exe"
• Download the latest version of Quartus II (including its library files) to the following directory: http://www.phas.ubc.ca/~scuba2/sc2mce/library/sw_lib

Install Quartus II

• Double click on 'XX_quartus_windows.exe' and follow the extraction and installation instructions.

Quartus II Linux Version

Altera claims only to support Redhat/Suse but I think we can fool it. There were two major problems encountered:

• The installer couldn't communicate with the Quartus web site
  • This was solved by setting up a stupid proxy relayer. I don't know why it was necessary and I don't know why it worked. The relay program is here:

 http://e-mode.phas.ubc.ca/~mhasse/mce/quartus_linux/prox.py

• The installer couldn't find a few commands that typically exist on Fedora systems, notably "arch" and "rpm". Fake versions of these, suitable for tricking the Quartus installer, can be found here (put them in /usr/bin and make them executable):

 http://e-mode.phas.ubc.ca/~mhasse/mce/quartus_linux/rpm
 http://e-mode.phas.ubc.ca/~mhasse/mce/quartus_linux/arch
 

Outstanding problem: Quartus does not want to recgonize the license file.