supports graphical design entry, text editing input, waveform editing fixed with text editing. This flexible input methods, has brought users great convenience.
QuartusⅡis a Alter’s comprehensive PLD development software ,which support s the schematic, VHDL, Verilog HDL, and AHDL (Altera Hardware Description Language) and other design input forms. In addition, there are embedded devices and integrated simulator in Quartus II, so you can complete the PLD design process from the design input to complement of the hardware configuration .
QuartusⅡcan operate in the XP, Linux and Unix. In addition, you can use the Tcl script to complete the design process and provide user with a complete graphical interface. It characters high running speed, unified interface, integrated features ,and so on.
Altera's QuartusⅡsupports IP core and includes the LPM / MegaFunction macro function module library, allowing users to take full advantage of sophisticated modules, simplifying the design complexity and speeding up the design speed. With supporting the third-party EDA tool, it also allows the user to use the familiar third-party EDA tools in the various stages of the design process. In addition, QuartusⅡcombines with Matlab / Simulink through DSP builder, and you can easily achieve a variety of DSP applications.Besides, it supports Altera's programmable system chip (SOPC) development and includes system-level design, embedded software development, programmable logic design ,which make it become a comprehensive development platform.
Being as Altera's PLD generation design software, MaxPULS II has been widely used because its excellent ease of use . Altera has now stopped update spport of MaxPLUSⅡ.Comparing with it, QuartusⅡnot only support the rich of device and the graphical interface changes. Altera’s QuartusⅡincludes many design ads tools,such as SignalTapⅡ, Chip Editor and RTL Viewer ,integrates design process such as SOPC and HardCopy, and inherits friendly graphical interface from MaxPULS.
As a programmable logic design environment, due to its strong design capabilities and intuitive interface, MaxPULS is becoming more and more popular among digital systems designers .
Altera's QuartusⅡis the fourth generation of programmable logic PLD
software development platform. The platform supports a working group under the design requirements, including support for Internet-based collaborative design. Quartus platform are compatible to Cadence, ExemplarLogic, MentorGraphics, Synopsys ,Synplicity EDA vendors and other development tools . It improves the design features of software module named LogicLock, adds FastFit compiler options, promotes the network editing performance, and improves debugging capabilities. In addition, it support the product such as MAX7000/MAX3000 devices.