Embedded Software Developer Center

This site provides key developer information for the Agilex®, Stratix® 10, Cyclone®, and Arria® device families including:

• Documentation that explains how to use example designs and tutorials found on the altera-fpga GitHub site.
• Comprehensive software development resources including information on Linux, Zephyr, Baremetal drivers and software utilities.
  • Linux Drivers
  • Zephyr Drivers
  • Virtualization - Xen (open-source hypervisor)
  • Baremetal Drivers
  • Host Attach Software Tools
  • Example Designs

The SoC FPGAs Resource Center provides everything you need to get started with SoC FPGAs, including links to: reference designs, application reports, how-to videos, white papers, design service network partners, webinars, articles, training, and more.

• Bare-metal considerations and alternatives
• Instructions for creating, building, and debugging bare-metal projects
• Use Arm* Development Studio SoC FPGA Edition
• Use Hardware Abstraction Library (HWLibs)
• Bare-metal project examples

• Hardware abstraction layer (HAL) library for Nios® V processor
• Using HAL library for creating bare-metal projects
• Backward compatible with Nios® II processor's HAL library
• Ashling RiscFree IDE for Altera FPGAs
• Available design examples

• Available SoC bootloaders
• Licensing considerations
• Advantages of each bootloader
• Additional reference materials

The Nios® II soft processor adds flexibility to all FPGA designs.

FPGA SDK for OpenCL enables software developers to accelerate their applications by targeting heterogeneous platforms with CPUs and FPGAs.