SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Signaling a new
era in design productivity for a new generation of programmable
logic devices, Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today released the
Quartus® Prime design software. Altera's new
software environment builds upon the company's proven,
user-friendly Quartus II software and incorporates the new
productivity-centric Spectra-Q™ engine. The new Quartus Prime
design software is optimized to enhance the FPGA and SoC FPGA
design process by reducing design iterations, delivering the
industry's fastest compile times, and accelerating silicon
performance.
"Our software tools are known throughout the industry for
providing the highest levels of performance and productivity," said
Alex Grbic, senior director of
software and IP marketing at Altera. "The Quartus Prime design
software extends Altera's leadership by building upon decades of
software innovations to provide our customers with new levels of
performance and productivity for programmable logic devices."
Quartus Prime design software users will experience the same
easy-to-use front-end user interface as the previous software
version; while the addition of the Spectra-Q engine on the back-end
enables unprecedented compile time improvements and increased
design performance with a new set of faster and more scalable
algorithms. The engine also features a hierarchical database that
preserves placement and routing of IP blocks to ensure stable
designs, while eliminating unnecessary timing closure efforts and
reducing compile times. Additional information about the Spectra-Q
engine can be found at www.altera.com/spectraq.
Working with early access customers, the Quartus Prime design
software demonstrated significantly higher design performance and
designer productivity in multiple Arria® 10 designs. With the
release of the Quartus Prime design software version 15.1,
customers targeting Arria 10 designs will experience:
- A full speed-grade advantage on average over the previous
software version with the new Hybrid Placer and Global
Router algorithms.
- Up to 10X faster IO design with the new BluePrint Platform
Designer.
- Up to 4X faster compile times using the software's new Rapid
Recompile feature.
- Expanded hardware description language support, including
SystemVerilog-2005 and VHDL-2008.
Additional information about the features in the Quartus Prime
design software version 15.1 can be found at
www.altera.com/whatsnew.
Quartus Prime Design Software Licensing Model
Quartus
Prime design software is offered in three editions based on
customers' design requirements. The Quartus Prime Pro Edition
offers the latest performance and productivity tools that support
Altera's latest high-performance FPGAs and SoC FPGAs. The Quartus
Prime Standard Edition supports devices in Altera's new product
category and the Quartus Prime Lite Edition support Altera's
high-volume device families. The Pro and Standard editions require
an annual software license, while the Lite edition is available as
a free download with no license file required.
Access to Altera's Extensive IP Ecosystem
The Quartus
Prime design software provides users access to Altera's extensive
collection of intellectual property (IP) cores. Additions and
enhancements in the latest software release include four new
Forward Error Correction (FEC) DSP cores, a new 2.5G dynamic rate
change option to the low-latency 10G Ethernet MAC and the
1G/2.5G/10G multi-rate Ethernet PHY, as well as improved usability
features for external memory interface IP. New dynamically
generated and configurable hardware design examples are also
included, which simplify IP evaluation on hardware to further
improve designer productivity. More information about Altera's IP
solutions can be found at the "what's new in IP" web page.
Availability and Pricing
The Quartus Prime design
software is now available for download. The Quartus Prime Pro
and Standard editions come with the ModelSim®-Altera Starter
edition software and a full license to the IP Base Suite. The
annual software license is $2,995 for
a node-locked PC license and is available for purchase at Altera's
eStore.
About Altera
Altera® programmable solutions enable
designers of electronic systems to rapidly and cost effectively
innovate, differentiate and win in their markets. Altera offers
FPGA, SoC, CPLD products, and complementary technologies, such as
power solutions, to provide high-value solutions to customers
worldwide. www.altera.com.
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Gabriel
Altera Corporation
(408) 544-6846
newsroom@altera.com
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