User guide

September 2010 Altera Corporation Cyclone III FPGA Development Kit User Guide
3. Software Installation
Introduction
This section describes the following procedures:
■ “Installing the Cyclone III Development Kit”
■ “Installing the Quartus II Web Edition Software” on page 3–2
■ “Installing the USB-Blaster Driver” on page 3–3
1 Before starting the installation, verify that you have complied with the conditions
described in “Software Requirements” on page 2–2.
Installing the Cyclone III Development Kit
The license-free Cyclone III Development Kit installer includes all the documentation
and design examples for the kit.
To install the Cyclone III Development Kit, follow these steps:
1. Download the Cyclone III Development Kit installer from the Cyclone III FPGA
Development Kit page of the Altera website. Alternatively, you can request a
development kit DVD from the Development Kits, Daughter Cards &
Programming Hardware page of the Altera website.
2. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process.
When the installation is complete, the Cyclone III Development Kit installation
program creates the directory structure shown in Figure 3–1, where <path> is the
Cyclone III Development Kit installation directory.
Figure 3–1. Cyclone III Development Kit Installed Directory Structure
cycloneIII_3c120_dev
documents
examples
board_design_files
The default Windows installation directory is C:\altera\ <version#> \kits.
factory_recovery
demos
<path>