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EECE259 Instructions forDownloading and Installing Altera Software
January 14, 2011
Overview
For the practical assignments, you need to install version9.1sp2 of the Altera tools:
- Quartus II Software
- Nios II Embedded Design Suite
- Altera University Program IP Cores
- Altera Monitor Program
- USB-Blaster Driver (IMPORTANT: Windows 7 users need version 10.0 or greater)
You must install the software in this order.
Before you begin, make sure you have about 10GBof free space for temporary storage. The finished installation requires about3.5 to 6GB (depending on whether you uncheck options below).
You can download the software from http://www.altera.com. Altera uses a downloadmanager that can resume an interrupted download. The total download is1.7GB.
A. Quartus II Web Edition
Download and install “Quartus II Web Edition v9.1 ServicePack 2”:
https://www.altera.com/download/software/quartus-ii-we/9.1
You should install with the default options. However, tosave disk space, choose “Custom” instead of “Complete” and keep “CycloneII 62MB” but uncheck all others. After unchecking, theinstaller will say you need “2572MB” of space.
Note: you do not need to download the ModelSim software; wewon’t be using it.
B. Nios II Embedded Design Suite
Using the same link as step A, download and install “Nios IIEmbedded Design Suite”. When you run the executable, it first will ask to unzipthe files in a temporary location. To make it easy to remember this location,set it to C:Temp
Again, to save disk space, choose “Custom” instead of“Complete” and uncheck “Verilog hardware design examples” and “VHDLhardware design examples”. After unchecking, the installer will say you need“1658MB” of space.
After installation is complete, manually delete the files inC:Temp to reclaim 613MB.
C.Altera University Program IP Cores andAltera Monitor Program
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Download and run the Altera University Program Design Suiteinstaller from:
ftp://ftp.altera.com/up/pub/Altera_Material/QII_9.1/altera_upds_setup_vhdl.exe
Installation instructions can be found in the followingtutorial:
ftp://ftp.altera.com/up/pub/Altera_Material/9.1/Tutorials/Altera_Monitor_Program_Tutorial.pdf
You can also read the Nios II tutorial:
ftp://ftp.altera.com/up/pub/Tutorials/DE2/Computer_Organization/tut_nios2_introduction.pdf
Sections 6 and 7 of this tutorial provide a good overview ofNios II instructions and assembler directives. An example program is explainedin section 8. You can also use this program to play around with the MonitorProgram. However, the program in section 8 might generate an assembler error(there is a problem with the last “stw” instruction). You can use the followingfile instead:
http://courses.ece.ubc.ca/259/homework/files/nios_example.s
E. USB-Blaster Cable Device Driver
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Windows 7 users, follow the link below to download a newerUSB-Blaster driver (the version included in 9.1sp2 will not work with Windows7)
http://www.altera.com/support/kdb/solutions/rd06212010_676.html
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Using the USB cable, plug your DE1 board directly into yourcomputer and turn it on (RED power switch). You do not need to use the ACadapter. (If you plug into a USB hub, the USB-Blaster may not be recognized.)Install the appropriate USB-Blaster Cable device driver using theseinstructions:
http://www.altera.com/support/software/drivers/dri-index.html
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The instructions refer to a folder “<Path to Quartus II installation>”on your computer. If you used the defaults during installation, this will be C:altera91sp2