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The Intel® Quartus® Prime software comes with a Vector Waveform Editor tool to allow users to draw the test input signals for simulation and select which signal should be shown in the simulation results. The method of running the Waveform Editor tool has varied over the various releases of the Intel Quartus Prime software. A brief discription of the Waveform Editor tool with regards to different versions of the Intel Quartus Prime software is given below. For more information, please see the FPGA University Program tutorial 'Introduction to Quartus Simulation'.
Download Center for FPGAs - Get the complete suite of Intel design tools for FPGAs. Intel® FPGAs and Programmable Devices / Download Center for FPGAs. Download Center for FPGAs. Select Software Products. Select Version or Product. Download Selected File. Altera uses a download manager that can resume an interrupted download. The total download is 1.7GB. The total download is 1.7GB. Do not install the software on the lab computers (we’ll do that for you). To install the Qsim tools, navigate to Altera’s University Program web pages. These pages can be accessed from Altera’s home page at www.altera.com, by click-ing on Training ¨ University Program. On the left side of the page click on Software, and then select University Program Installer. Download this software and install it on your computer. Altera University Program Software. This is a set of Verilog/VHDL files for the DE1/DE2 boards, as well as an easy-to-use C compiler and debugger interface for Nios II. This is a set of Verilog/VHDL files for the DE1/DE2 boards, as well as an easy-to-use C compiler and debugger interface for Nios II.
Starting with the Intel Quartus Prime software v13.0, the Waveform Editor tool for performing simulations can be opened from within the Intel Quartus Prime software. This is accomplished by selecting “File -> New -> University Program VWF”. Test vectors created with this tool can be used in simulation of your circuits by running the ModelSim*-Intel FPGA simulation tool. The simulator can be started from within the Waveform Editor, or by using the NativeLink flow.
By clicking on Training ¨ University Program. On the left side of the page click on Software Tools, and then select University Program Installer. Download this software and install it on your computer. For Quartus II versions 10.1 and 11.0, the Qsim tools must be installed separately by using the University Program Installer.
For Intel Quartus Prime software v10.1 through 12.1, the Waveform Editor tool could be used only to enter test inputs and set output signals to view. Running simulations was done using a separate tool, Qsim. For Intel Quartus Prime software v10.1 and 11.0, the QSim tool and Waveform Editor must be installed separately by using the FPGA University Program Installer. Beginning with the Intel Quartus Prime software v11.1, the QSim tool and Waveform Editor are bundled with the Intel Quartus Prime software. The QSim tool can be invoked from a command window by using the command 'quartus_sh --qsim'. The quartus_sh executable is part of the Intel Quartus Prime software. It can be found in the folder where the Intel Quartus Prime software is installed, for example C:altera12.0quartusbin. For this example of an installation folder you would type the command C:altera12.0quartusbinquartus_sh --qsim. Note that if you are using the Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition software and you are running a 64 bit operating system, then the executable is found in quartusbin64.
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For Intel Quartus Prime software v9.1 and earlier, the Waveform Editor tool was included with the Intel Quartus Prime software and used the internal Intel Quartus software simulator.
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