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Quartus II FPGA System Design Tool
Altera’s Quartus® II software leads the industry
as the most comprehensive environment
available for FPGA designs, providing
unmatched performance delivery, efficiency, and
ease-of-use.
SOPC Builder System-Level Integration Tool
SOPC Builder eliminates manual system
integration tasks and allows you to focus on
custom user logic design to differentiate your
system. All versions of the Altera® Quartus II
design software include the SOPC Builder
system generation tool.
SignalTap II Embedded Logic Analyzer
The SignalTapTM II logic analyzer is a
system-level debugging tool that captures and
displays real-time signal behavior in a “system
on a programmable chip” (SOPC), allowing you
to observe interactions between hardware and
software in system designs.
MegaCore IP Library
You can choose from Altera's comprehensive
MegaCore
®
intellectual property (IP) library of
peripheral functions such as IDEs, UARTs,
interrupt controllers, and PCI bus bridges to
build a custom function optimized for specific
applications.
Altera's rapidly growing portfolio of standard
bus interfaces allows you to add chip-to-chip,
board-to-board, or box-to-box connectivity to
SOPC designs. The microsystems portfolio also
includes megafunctions to seamlessly add
external memory, Ethernet interfaces, PCI™,
PCIe
®
, USB, and next-generation processor
interfaces.