Quartus II tutorial

Altera Quartus II Tutorial (For ECE 465 Students at UIC) Waseem Ahmad TA for ECE 465 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Chicago wahmad@ece.uic.edu Quartus II by Altera is a PLD Design Software which is suitable for high-density Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) designs, low-cost FPGA designs, and Complex able Logic Devices CPLD designs. The following tutorial is aimed to help UIC students taking ECE 465 course in designing their class projects. The tutorial is organized as follows. First section gives pointers to Altera’s website from where this software can be downloaded and instructions to install this software and obtaining license can be found. Second section describes a step by step approach to designing a simple 2 to 4 decoder using Quartus II’s Schematic Editor. Finally the third section describes the simulation process of verifying the design of the decoder. Each section is augmented with figures of each step leading to the next process. 1. Downloading and Installing Quartus II 1.1 Download The software can be downloaded from Altera’s website (www.altera.com) at following URL. https://www.altera.com/support/software/download/altera_design/quartus_we/dnl-quartus_we.jsp 1.2 Installation Instruction Instructions to install the software can be found at the following URL. https://www.altera.com/support/software/download/altera_design/quartus_we/ins-webdnl_consol.html 1.3 Setting ...