A powerful, integrated design environment built to scale with your FPGA designs. From design entry and synthesis to optimization, verification, and simulation, Quartus Prime supports every step of development—enabling advanced performance on devices with millions of logic elements.
WHAT'S NEW
What's New in Version 25.3
Downloads
Quartus Prime
Pro EditionAdvanced design flow, block-based design, interface planner, partial reconfiguration, and high-speed transceiver support
Quartus Prime
Standard EditionBroad legacy support, platform designer, partial reconfiguration, and core timing/power tools
Quartus Prime
Lite EditionFree access, essential design tools, basic compile flow, Signal Tap, and starter simulation
Features
Platform Designer
Platform Designer is a system integration tool in the Quartus® Prime Software that automatically generates interconnect logic to connect intellectual property (IP) functions and subsystems, saving significant time and effort in the FPGA design process.
Block-Based Design
Design, implement, and verify core or periphery blocks once, and then reuse those blocks multiple times across different projects that use the same device.
Partial Reconfiguration
Reconfigure a portion of the FPGA dynamically while the remaining FPGA design continues to function.
Design Partition Planner
A design partition is a logical, named, hierarchical boundary that you can assign to an instance in your design. Defining a design partition allows you to optimize and lock down the compilation results for individual blocks.
Chip Planner
Chip Planner simplifies floorplanning by allowing you to view and constrain design logic within a visual display of the FPGA chip resources. You can use the Chip Planner to view and modify the logic placement, connections, and routing paths after running the Fitter.
Interface Planner
The Interface Planner explores a device’s peripheral architecture and efficiently assigns interfaces. The Interface Planner prevents illegal pin assignments by performing fitter and legality checks in real-time.
Logic Lock Regions
A Logic Lock region is a powerful type of logic placement and routing constraint. You can define any arbitrary region of physical resources on the target device as a Logic Lock region, and then assign design nodes and other properties to the region.
Multiprocessor Support (Faster Compile Time)
Using multi-processors for compilation can result in faster compile times depending on the number of cores used.
IP Base Suite
Altera provides full production licenses for some of its popular IP cores in the Altera FPGA IP Base Suite, which is free with the Quartus Prime Software and Quartus Prime Pro Edition Software.
Fitter (Place and Route)
The Compiler's Fitter performs design placement and routing. During place and route, the Fitter determines the best placement and routing of logic in the target FPGA device.
Register Retiming
Register Retiming can balance register chains by retiming (moving) ALM registers into Hyper-Registers in the routing fabric.
Timing Analyzer
The Timing Analyzer is a powerful ASIC-style timing analysis tool that validates the timing performance of all logic in your design using an industry-standard constraint, analysis, and reporting methodology.
Design Space Explorer II
The Design Space Explorer II tool allows you to find optimal project settings for resource, performance, or power optimization goals.
Power Analysis
Power analysis features include Early Power Estimators, Altera® FPGA Power and Thermal Calculator, and the Power Analyzer that give you the ability to estimate power consumption.
Signal Tap Logic Analyzer
The Signal Tap logic analyzer captures and displays the real-time signal behavior in an FPGA design allowing you to probe and debug the behavior of internal signals during normal device operation, without requiring extra I/O pins or external lab equipment.
Transceiver Toolkit
Transceiver Toolkit uses System Console technology to help FPGA and board designers validate transceiver link signal integrity in real-time in a system and improve board bring-up time.
Questa*-FPGA Edition Software
Questa*-FPGA software editions are a version of the Siemens EDA Questa* Core software targeted for Altera® FPGAs devices.
Quartus Prime Design Software Documentation
Demo Videos
Quartus Prime Installer (Command Line Mode)
The new Quartus Prime Installer is a light-weight downloader and installer client that allows users to download various Quartus components such as devices.
Extracting Presets in Quartus Prime Demo Video
Video detailing how to extract and save board and preset files from an existing known good reference design for a target board that can then be reused to create a different design for the same target board.
Agilex™ 5 E-Series No Cost License
Agilex 5 E-Series device is supported in Quartus Prime Pro 24.1 onwards. Watch this video guide to fetch and enable the device in Quartus software.
