Echelon FTXL Hardware - Manual (Page 62)

54 Working with the Altera Development Environments
Development Tools
To develop your FTXL application, you use version 7.2 or later of the Altera
Complete Design Suite, as listed in Table 17. You can obtain the Altera
Complete Design Suite on DVD-ROM from Altera Corporation, or you can
download the Web Edition of the tools from
https://www.altera.com/support/software/download/nios2/dnl-nios2.jsp .
Table 17. Altera Complete Design Suite
Quartus II Design Software for Windows
The Quartus II design software provides a suite of tools for system-level design,
embedded software programming, FPGA and CPLD design, synthesis, place-and-
route, verification, and device programming. Quartus II software supports all of
Altera's current device families.
The Quartus II Web Edition is a subset of the Quartus II design software that
provides support for selected Altera processors.
Both the Quartus II design software and the Quartus II Web Edition include the
SOPC Builder tool, which is an automated system development tool that
dramatically simplifies the task of creating high-performance system-on-a-
programmable-chip (SOPC) designs.
ModelSim ® -Altera VHDL & Verilog HDL Simulation Tool
The ModelSim-Altera software is an Altera-specific version of the Model
Technology™ ModelSim simulation software, which supports behavioral
simulation and testbenches for VHDL or Verilog hardware description languages
(HDLs). The ModelSim-Altera software is included with Altera software
subscriptions.
MegaCore IP Library
The MegaCore IP library includes some of Altera’s most popular intellectual
property (IP) cores, including a finite impulse response (FIR) compiler, a
numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) compiler, a fast Fourier transform (FFT)
compiler, several DDR SDRAM controllers, a QDRII SDRAM controller, an
RLDRAM II controller, and a lightweight serial interconnect protocol. The
MegaCore IP library is included with Altera software subscriptions.
Nios II Embedded Design Suite
The Nios II integrated development environment (IDE) is a graphical user
interface (GUI) within which you can accomplish all Nios II embedded processor
software development tasks, including editing, building, managing, and
debugging embedded software programs. The Nios II IDE is included with Altera
software subscriptions.
For more information about installing the Altera Complete Design Suite, see
Quartus II Installation & Licensing for Windows , available from the Quartus II
Development Software Literature page at www.altera.com/literature/lit-qts.jsp .