Specifications

CHAPTER 1: INSTALLING ALTERA SOFTWARE
SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS
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Cables and Ports
■ Parallel port for connecting a ByteBlaster
™
II or ByteBlasterMV
™
parallel port download cable or parallel port software guard (Windows
XP only). If you want to use a ByteBlaster cable on a system running
Windows Vista 32-bit, you must first manually install the ByteBlaster
cable driver.
■ Serial port for connecting a MasterBlaster
™
communications cable.
■ USB port for connecting a USB-Blaster
™
download cable, a
MasterBlaster communications cable, the Altera Programming Unit
(APU), or a USB software guard.
■ 10/100 Mb Ethernet connection for connecting a EthernetBlaster
download cable.
Software
■ A web browser with an Internet connection for Quartus II software
Internet resources. Either Firefox, version 2.0 or later, or Microsoft
Internet Explorer, version 5.0 or later is required.
■ Flash Player 7.0 with Mozilla 1.2 or later, for the Quartus II Interactive
Tutorial.
■ The KDE or GNOME window manager (must be the version that is
included with your Linux operating system installation).
■ The native XServer software for Linux.
■ The Hummingbird Exceed XServer software is required if you want to
make the Quartus II software for Linux accessible by a Windows
workstation over a network.
Supported Operating Systems
Refer to www.altera.com/support/software/os_support/oss-index.html for
the most current Altera software operating system support.
Altera software supports the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of certain operating
systems. You can run 32-bit Altera software in the 32-bit or 64-bit versions of
supported operating systems; however, you can run 64-bit Altera software
only in 64-bit versions of supported operating systems. Altera software
operating support is described in Table 2.