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News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: Quartus II software version 7.0
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 March 2007
Design and development software for 65nm
FPGAs
Quartus II software version 7.0 supports the entire 65nm Cyclone III FPGA family and is available in both subscription and free web editions.
Altera has introduced Quartus II software version 7.0 with support for the entire 65nm Cyclone III FPGA family in both its Subscription Edition and free Web Edition The Cyclone III support within Web Edition is said to mark the highest device density available within any FPGA vendor's free software package
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Customers using the 8.0 release to design Altera's 65nm Stratix III FPGAs on Windows platforms will see compile times reduced by up to 50%.
The advanced technology and productivity features in Quartus II software allow designers to exploit the full potential of the Cyclone III family and achieve 50% lower power consumption, compared to the previous generation family, and three speed grades faster than the nearest low-cost FPGA competitor.
"Designers around the world have access to free Quartus II Web Edition software, enabling them to design FPGA densities up to four times greater than any competing free software", says Jordan Plofsky, Altera's Senior Vice President of Marketing.
"Our easy-to-use Quartus II software, together with low-cost Cyclone III FPGAs, addresses designs ranging from 5Kbyte to 120Kbyte logic elements (LEs), expanding programmable logic into a wider array of cost- sensitive applications".
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Quartus II software version 7.0 provides support for the new Cyclone III family, including the EP3C120 device with 120,000 LEs, 4Mbit of memory and 288 multipliers.
Features include TimeQuest timing analyser for easy and quick timing closure, incremental compilation for fast compile times and team-based design, PowerPlay power analysis and optimisation tools for minimal power consumption, and SOPC Builder and DSP Builder tools for system-level design.
A variety of information and online and instructor-led training is available for customers wanting to learn more about Quartus II software and its productivity-enhancing features.
Both the Subscription Edition and the Web Edition of Quartus II software version 7.0 are now available.
The Subscription Edition is shipping to all customers with an active software subscription.
The free Quartus II Web Edition software can be downloaded from the Altera website.
Altera's software subscription program simplifies the process of obtaining Altera design software by consolidating software products and maintenance charges into one annual subscription payment.
Subscribers receive Quartus II software, the ModelSim-Altera Edition and a full license to the IP Base Suite, which includes ten of Altera's most popular intellectual property (DSP and memory) cores.
The annual software subscription is US $2,000 for a node-locked PC license.
Quartus II design software supports major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000, UNIX (Solaris 8 and 9), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and 4.0, and SUSE Enterprise Linux 9.
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