Operating System Support
Table 1: OS Support for Intel® FPGA Complete Design Suite Version 22.3
Table 1 lists the operating system (OS) support for the Intel® Quartus® Pro Edition Software, Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition Software, Intel Quartus Prime Lite Edition Software, Questa* Intel® FPGA Edition Software, Nios® II Embedded Design Suite (EDS), DSP Builder for Intel® FPGAs, and Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ software technology.
Software |
Windows* 10 |
Windows* 11 |
Windows Server* 2016 Enterprise |
Windows Server* 2019 Enterprise |
Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 8.4 |
Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 8.6 |
SUSE* SLE 12 |
SUSE* SLE 15 |
Ubuntu* 18.04 LTS |
Ubuntu* 20.04 LTS |
Ubuntu* 22.04 LTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Intel Quartus Prime Lite Edition |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Intel® HLS Compiler Pro |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Questa* Intel® FPGA Edition (Pro and Standard) |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
Nios® II Embedded Design Suite (EDS) (Pro and Standard) |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
✓ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
RiscFree* Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Intel® FPGA |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
DSP Builder for Intel® FPGAs (Pro) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Intel Quartus Prime Stand-Alone Programmer (Standard and Pro) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ (Pro) |
✓ |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
- |
Intel® Advanced Link Analyzer (Pro and Standard) |
✓ |
|
✓ |
✓ |
- |
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Notes:
Starting with Intel® Quartus® Prime Software version 14.0, Intel® FPGA Software only supports 64-bit versions of the OS listed in Table 1, unless specified. The 32-bit library files are required to run the software on Linux* 64-bit platforms.
32-bit stand-alone programmer is only supported in Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition Software version 18.1 and prior only.
Red Hat* 5 support is dropped since Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition Software version 18.0 onwards.
Starting with Nios II EDS in Intel Quartus Prime Pro Edition Software version 19.2 and Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition Software version 19.1, the Cygwin* component in the Windows* version of Nios II EDS has been removed and replaced with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). For installation instructions, refer to the Installing WSL on the Windows section in the Nios II software Developer Handbook. For machines installed with McAfee* Endpoint Security, the minimum requirement is Windows 10 version 1809 (OS build 17763). If you are using a network drive for the Nios II EDS, the minimum requirement is Windows 10 version 1903 (OS build 18362).
The Intel Quartus Prime Standard and Pro Editions are no longer supported under Windows 7 and replaced with Windows 10. For Windows users, you will need to download and install the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) for Windows Server as well as Windows 10.
DSP Builder for Intel FPGAs depends on MATLAB* (DSPB is effectively a plugin for MATLAB) so the true set of DSP Builder for Intel FPGAs supported OS is a restricted subset and refer users to the MathWorks* OS support webpage.
As of Intel Quartus Prime Software version 20.3, the Intel SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite (SoC EDS) is no longer available. The components that comprised the SoC EDS are now available only through GitHub*. For details, see the Intel Download Center for FPGAs.
Starting with Intel Quartus Prime Software version 21.3, Intel FPGA software supports Questa*-Intel FPGA Edition and ModelSim Intel FPGA Starter Edition is dropped.
For more information about software system requirements, refer to the following pages:
- Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition Software page
- Intel Quartus Prime Pro Edition Software page
- Release notes and readme.txt files for ModelSim Intel FPGA software in Table 2
- Nios II Embedded Design Suite Legacy Tools page
- DSP Builder for Intel FPGAs page
For information about system memory requirements for designs targeting different Intel FPGA architectures, refer to:
- Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition Software, and Device Support Release Notes
- Intel Quartus Prime Pro Edition Software, and Device Support Release Notes
For detailed information, refer to the readme.txt files in Table 2.
Table 2 lists the release notes and readme.txt files for current and past Intel Quartus Software versions along with the corresponding ModelSim Intel FPGA software versions.
Table 2: Release Notes and readme.txt Files
Intel Quartus Prime Software Version |
ModelSim*-Intel FPGA and Questa*-Intel FPGA Edition Software Version |
|---|---|
Questa*-Intel FPGA Edition version 2022.1 (Intel Quartus Prime Pro software compatible) |
|
Questa*-Intel FPGA Edition version 2022.1 (Intel Quartus Prime Pro software compatible) |
|
| Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v21.4 | Questa*-Intel FPGA Edition version 2021.3 (Intel Quartus Prime Pro software compatible) |
Questa Intel FPGA Edition version 2021.2 (Intel Quartus Prime Pro software compatible) |
|
ModelSim Intel FPGA 2021.1 (Intel Quartus Prime Pro software compatible) |
|
ModelSim Intel FPGA 2021.1 (Intel Quartus Prime Pro software compatible) |
|
ModelSim Intel FPGA 2020.3 (Intel Quartus Prime Pro software compatible) |
|
| Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v20.3 |
ModelSim Intel FPGA 2020.3 (Intel Quartus Prime Pro software compatible) |
ModelSim Intel FPGA 2019.2 (Intel Quartus Prime Pro software compatible) |
|
ModelSim Intel FPGA 2019.2 (Intel Quartus Prime Pro software compatible) ModelSim Intel FPGA 2020.1 (Intel Quartus Prime Standard software compatible) |
|
ModelSim Intel FPGA 2019.2 (Intel Quartus Prime Pro software compatible) |
|
ModelSim Intel FPGA 10.6d (Intel Quartus Prime Pro software compatible) |
|
ModelSim Intel FPGA 10.6d (Intel Quartus Prime Pro software compatible) |
|
ModelSim Intel FPGA 10.6d (Intel Quartus Prime Pro software compatible) ModelSim Intel FPGA Edition version 10.5b (Intel Quartus Prime Standard software compatible) |
|
ModelSim Intel FPGA 10.6d (Intel Quartus Prime Pro software compatible) ModelSim Intel FPGA 10.5b (Intel Quartus Prime Standard software compatible) |
|
ModelSim Intel FPGA 10.6c (Intel Quartus Prime Pro software compatible) ModelSim Intel FPGA 10.5b (Intel Quartus Prime Standard software compatible) |
|
ModelSim Intel FPGA 10.5c (Intel Quartus Prime Pro software compatible) ModelSim Intel FPGA 10.5b (Intel Quartus Prime Standard software compatible) |
|
Table 3: OS Support for Intel Quartus Prime Software
Intel Quartus Prime Software Version |
Operating System Support |
|---|---|
Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v22.3 |
|
| Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v22.2 |
|
| Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v22.1 |
|
Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v21.4 |
|
Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v21.3 |
|
Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v21.2 |
|
Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v21.1 |
|
Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v20.4 |
|
Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v20.3 |
|
Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v20.2 |
|
Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v20.1 |
|
Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v19.4 |
|
Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v19.3 |
|
Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v19.2 |
|
Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v19.1 |
|
Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v18.1 |
|
Intel Quartus Prime Design Software v18.0 |
|
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