Installing the development kit – Altera Arria V SoC User Manual

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Chapter 2: Software Installation

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Installing the Altera SoC Embedded Development Suite (EDS)

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Altera Corporation

Arria V SoC Development Kit

User Guide

7. Click Activate Selected Products, and click Close.

8. When licensing is complete, Altera emails a license.dat file to you. Store the file on

your computer and use the License Setup page of the Options dialog box in the
Quartus II software to enable the software.

To license the Quartus II software, you need your computer’s network interface
card (NIC) ID, a number that uniquely identifies your computer. On the computer
you use to run the Quartus II software, type ipconfig /all at a command prompt
to determine the NIC ID. Your NIC ID is the 12-digit hexadecimal number on the
Physical Address

line.

For complete licensing details, refer to the

Altera Software Installation and Licensing

Manual

Installing the Altera SoC Embedded Development Suite (EDS)

The Altera SoC EDS is a comprehensive tool suite for embedded software
development on Altera SoC devices. It contains development tools, utility programs,
run-time software, and application examples to expedite firmware and application
software of SoC embedded systems.

As a part of the Altera SoC EDS, the ARM DS-5 Altera Edition Toolkit provides a
comprehensive set of embedded development tools for Altera SoCs.

For more information, refer to the

ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5) Altera Edition

Toolkit.

For the steps to install the SoC EDS Tool Suite, refer to the

Altera SoC Embedded

Design Suite User Guide

Installing the Development Kit

Perform these steps:

1. Download the Arria V SoC Development Kit installer from the

Arria V SoC

Development Kit