It is suggested that each school enroll in the Altera University Program at www.altera.com. Enrollment ensures that the college will be kept up-to-date on the latest products and software updates. FPGA Programming Board. Altera, through their University Program, has provided licensing for Quartus II professional (subscription edition) version. Quartus® II, v13.0 with Service Pack 1 are available from all microcomputers in the department's computer, electronics, and physics labs; licensing is via our license server.
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'.
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.
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.
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.