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Compare Quartus® Prime Design Software

Choose the Right Quartus Prime Edition for Your Design

Pro Edition

Design Flow

Platform Designer
Block Based Design 
Partial Reconfiguration

Design Entry/Planning

Design Partition Planner
Chip Planner
Interface Planner
Logic Lock Regions
Multiprocessor Support (Faster Compile Time)
IP Base Suite

Placement and Routing

Fitter (Place and Route)
Register Retiming

Timing and Power Verification

Timing Analyzer
Design Space Explorer II
Power Analysis

Simulation and Debug

Signal Tap Logic Analyzer
Transceiver Toolkit
Questa* – Altera FPGA Edition

Standard Edition

Design Flow

Platform Designer 
Partial Reconfiguration

Design Entry/Planning

Design Partition Planner
Chip Planner
Logic Lock Regions
Multiprocessor Support (Faster Compile Time)
IP Base Suite

Placement and Routing

Fitter (Place and Route)
Register Retiming

Timing and Power Verification

Timing Analyzer
Design Space Explorer II
Power Analysis

Simulation and Debug

Signal Tap Logic Analyzer
Transceiver Toolkit
Questa* – Altera FPGA Edition

Lite Edition

Design Flow

Platform Designer 

Design Entry/Planning

Chip Planner
IP Base Suite

Placement and Routing

Fitter (Place and Route)

Timing and Power Verification

Timing Analyzer
Design Space Explorer II
Power Analysis

Simulation and Debug

Signal Tap Logic Analyzer
Questa* – Altera FPGA Edition

This edition is free. 

Which Devices Are Supported in Each Quartus Prime Edition?

Quartus Prime

Pro Edition

The Pro Edition offers the most advanced design features and support for the latest high-end FPGAs and SoCs, with optimized flows and tools to design for high-performance systems.

Devices Supported: 
  • Agilex 9 devices
  • Agilex 7 devices
  • Agilex 5 devices
  • Agilex 3 devices
  • Stratix 10 devices
  • Arria 10 devices
  • Cyclone 10 GX devices
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Quartus Prime

Standard Edition

The Standard Edition provides comprehensive FPGA design capabilities with broad device support and essential planning, compile, and analysis tools for a wide range of mid- to high-range FPGAs.

Devices Supported: 
  • Arria 10 devices
  • Arria V FPGAs
  • Arria® V GZ FPGA
  • Arria II FPGAs
  • MAX 10 devices
  • MAX V CPLDs
  • MAX II CPLDs
  • Cyclone 10 LP devices
  • Cyclone V devices
  • Cyclone IV FPGAs
  • Stratix V FPGAs
  • Stratix IV FPGAs 
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Quartus Prime

Lite Edition

The Lite Edition is a free entry-level version that enables basic compile, programming, and debugging support for select device families, making it suitable for smaller designs and educational use.

Devices Supported:
  • Cyclone 10 LP devices
  • Cyclone V devices
  • Cyclone IV FPGAs
  • Arria II FPGAs (EP2AGX45 only)
  • MAX 10 devices
  • MAX V CPLDs
  • MAX II CPLDs
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Pro Edition

Standard Edition

Lite Edition

Simulation Tools
Questa* – Altera FPGA Edition
Questa* – Altera FPGA Starter Edition
Advanced Link Analyzer
Open FPGA Stack		Questa* – Altera FPGA Edition
Questa* – Altera FPGA Starter Edition
Advanced Link Analyzer		Questa* – Altera FPGA Starter Edition
Add-on Tools
Power & Thermal Analyzer
FPGA AI Suite		--
Embedded Tools
Nios V Processor
Visual Designer Studio (Beta)
ARM SoC EDS
Intel Simics Simulator for Altera FPGAs
Ashling RiscFree IDE		Nios V Processor
ARM SoC EDS
Ashling RiscFree IDE		Nios V Processor
Ashling RiscFree IDE
IP Development Tools
DSP Builder
P4 Suite for FPGAs
Altera FPGA Add-on for oneAPI Base Toolkit		--