Operating System Support

Table 1 lists the operating system (OS) support for the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software, Quartus Prime Standard Edition software, Quartus Prime Lite Edition software, ModelSim*-Intel FPGA Edition software, ModelSim-Intel FPGA Starter Edition software, Nios® II Embedded Design Suite (EDS), DSP Builder for Intel FPGAs, and Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL™.

Table 1: OS Support for Intel FPGA Complete Design Suite Version 17.0(1)

Software Windows
7 SP1
 Windows 8.1 Windows 10 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise Windows Server 2012 R2 Enterprise Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 5.10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux  6.8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 SUSE SLE 12 Ubuntu 14.04
Quartus Prime Pro Edition Check Check Check Check Check - Check Check(5) Check Check
Quartus Prime Standard Edition Check Check Check Check Check Check Check Check(5) Check Check
Quartus Prime Lite Edition

Check

 Check Check Check Check Check Check Check(5) Check Check
ModelSim-Intel FPGA Edition

Check(2)

 Check(2)(3) Check(2) Check(2) - Check(2) Check(2) Check(2) - -
ModelSim-Intel FPGA Starter Edition Check(2) Check(2)(3) Check(2) Check(2) - Check(2) Check(2) Check(2) - -
Nios II EDS Pro Check Check Check Check - Check Check - - -
Nios II EDS Standard

Check

 Check - Check - Check Check - - -
DSP Builder for Intel FPGAs

Check

 Check Check Check Check Check Check Check Check Check
Quartus Prime Stand-Alone Programmer

Check

 Check Check Check Check Check Check Check Check Check
Intel SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite Pro

Check

 - Check Check - Check(2) Check(2) - - -
Intel SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite Standard

Check

 - Check Check - Check(2) Check(2) - - -
Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL

Check

 Check Check - - -

 Check Check - Check
JNEye

Check(4)

 Check(4) Check(4) Check(4) Check(4) - - - - -

Notes:

  1. Starting with ACDS v14.0, Intel FPGA software only supports 64 bit versions of the OS listed in Table 1, unless specified.
  2. The 32 bit library files are required to run the software on Linux 64 bit platforms.
  3. Windows 8.0 only.
  4. Both 32 bit and 64 bit are supported.
  5. Only KDE desktop manager is supported.

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

For information about system memory requirements for designs targeting different Intel FPGA device architectures, refer to:

For detailed information about the ACDS, refer to the readme.txt files in Table 2.

Table 2 lists the release notes and readme.txt files for current and past Quartus Prime and Quartus II software versions along with the corresponding ModelSim software versions.

Table 2: Release Notes and readme.txt Files

Quartus Software Version ModelSim Software Version

Quartus Prime Design Software v17.0

ModelSim- Intel FPGA 10.5c

Quartus Prime Design Software v16.1

ModelSim- Intel FPGA 10.5b

Quartus Prime Design Software v16.0

ModelSim-Intel 10.4d

Quartus Prime Design Software v15.1

ModelSim-Intel 10.4b

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