Operating System Support

Table 1 shows the operating system (OS) support for the Altera^® Complete Design Suite tools, which include Quartus^® II Subscription Edition, Quartus II Web Edition, ModelSim^®-Altera Edition, ModelSim-Altera Starter Edition, Nios^® II Embedded Design Suite (EDS), and DSP Builder.

Table 1. OS Support for Altera Complete Design Suite Version 9.1 (1)
Software	Windows XP		Windows Vista		Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5		SUSE Linux Enterprise 9/10		CentOS 4/5
	32-bit	64-bit	32-bit	64-bit	32-bit	64-bit	32-bit	64-bit	32-bit	64-bit
Quartus II Subscription Edition
Quartus II Web Edition		-		-	-	-	-	-	-	-
ModelSim-Altera Edition		-		-		-		-	-	-
ModelSim-Altera Starter Edition		-		-		-		-	-	-
Nios II Embedded Design Suite (EDS)		-		-
DSP Builder		-		-		-	-	-		-

Note:

1. Altera software supports the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of certain operating systems. You can run 32-bit Altera software in the 32-bit or 64-bit versions of supported operating systems; however, you can run 64-bit Altera software only in 64-bit versions of supported operating systems.

For more information about software system requirements, refer to the following pages:

• Quartus II Subscription Edition download page
• Quartus II Web Edition download page
• Release Notes and README files for ModelSim-Altera software in Table 2
• Nios II Embedded Design Suite download page
• DSP Builder Installation and Licensing (PDF)

For system requirements for previous versions of Quartus II software, refer to the Quartus II Software Archive page.

For information on system memory requirements for designs targeting different Altera device architectures, refer to the Quartus II 9.1 Software Device Support Release Note (PDF).

For detailed information about the Altera Complete Design Suite, refer to the Quartus II software README files in Table 2.

Table 2 links to Release Notes and README files for current and past Quartus II software versions along with the corresponding ModelSim-Altera versions.