Difference between revisions of "Quartus installation on Linux"

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Introduction

Quartus web edition is the software used to synthesize bitstream for Altera FPGAs. It's required for the cyclone V soldered on APF6SP.

Installation guide

Package needed

On debian jessie :

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5 libmotif4 libxp6 libcurl3
# for 64 arch, install also 32bits packets:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5:i386 libmotif4:i386 libxp6:i386 libcurl3:i386

Download

Download the big (4GB) quartus installer here (Use "download software web edition" button).

Uncompress and install

• Untar the archive :

 tar -xvf Quartus-web-14.0.0.200-linux.tar

• run the installer:

 bash setup.sh 

• follow the instructions to install it where you want.

configure .bashrc

Adding the path of your quartus in ~/.bashrc

export ALTERAPATH="/opt/quartus/altera/14.0/"
export ALTERAOCLSDKROOT="${ALTERAPATH}/hld"
export QUARTUS_ROOTDIR=${ALTERAPATH}/quartus
export QUARTUS_ROOTDIR_OVERRIDE="$QUARTUS_ROOTDIR"
export PATH=$PATH:${ALTERAPATH}/quartus/bin
export PATH=$PATH:${ALTERAPATH}/nios2eds/bin
export PATH=$PATH:${ALTERAPATH}/modelsim_ase/bin

Launch Quartus

To launch quartus, open a terminal and simply type :

$ quartus

Links

• Installation guide for Debian on Altera's official wiki
• USB-Blaster installation guide for debian
• Altera wiki
• Altera forum