– Downloaded and installed the following software on my personal notebook:
- Quarthus® II Web Edition, version 13.0sp1. The Quarthus® II Web Edition is composed by the Quarthus® II (which includes Nios® II processor Embedded Development Suite) and ModelSim-Altera Edition (which includes the Starter Edition).
- Device support for Cyclone® II, Cyclone® III and Cyclone® IV FPGA groups.
- Quartus® II Help.
The download took approximately 4 hours. The software above was found at the Altera download center. Link for download center : http://dl.altera.com/13.0sp1/?edition=web
– Started implementing the 15 minutes tutorial at the beginning of the book “Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems – SOPC edition” on my personal notebook. The tutorial goes from page 1 to page 41 of the latter book. The FPGA configuration in the tutorial was successfully compiled, but some difficulties appeared to simulate and to download the compiled FPGA configuration into the Altera DE2® development board. Possible causes of these difficulties : Downloaded software files were corrupted; the installation wasn’t completely successful; the software installed does not work properly on the Operational System (OS) Windows® 8.
