Cyclone Design Utilities

Use Altera^® design utilities to make designing with Cyclone^® devices even easier. See Table 1 for a list of design utilities and their descriptions.

Designers needing lower costs, more density, and functionality for high-volume applications can take advantage of Cyclone II FPGAs, the second-generation device family in this series.

Table 1. Cyclone Design Utilities
Design Utility	Description
Device Family Overview	Find the right Cyclone device for your design requirements.
Serial Configuration Devices	Learn about Altera's new low-cost serial configuration devices, which provide fast configuration solutions for Cyclone devices.
Quartus II Web Edition Software	Download the free Quartus® II Web Edition software (supports all Cyclone  devices and no license required)
DSP Builder	Design with Altera's DSP Builder, a digital signal processing (DSP) development tool that interfaces with The MathWorks' industry-leading Simulink system-level DSP tool and Altera's industry-leading Quartus II design software.
Memory Solution Center	Learn about embedded memory in Altera devices as well as dedicated interfaces to high-speed external memory devices.
DSP Solution Center	Discover the DSP solutions available from Altera.
I/O Standards & Interfaces Solution Center	Explore I/O standards and interfaces supported in Altera devices.
Board Design Guidelines Solution Center	Find out board design and manufacturing guidelines as well as board design resources.
Cyclone Questions & Answers	Get answers to common questions about Cyclone devices.
Cyclone Backgrounder (PDF)	Read more about the Cyclone device family features.
BSDL Files	Download boundary scan description language (BSDL) files for Cyclone devices.
Pin-Out Files	Download Cyclone pin-out files listing device pin-out descriptions.
PowerPlay Early Power Estimator	Calculate the estimated power consumption for Cyclone devices based on typical conditions.
IBIS Models	Download I/O buffer information specification (IBIS) models for Cyclone devices.