Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition Version 20.1 Software and Device Support Release Notes

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This document provides late-breaking information about Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition Version 20.1.

For additional information about this software release, refer to the Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition README file in the following location: <installation directory>/quartus/readme.txt

For information about operating system support, refer to the following web page: Intel FPGA Operating System Support.

Related Information

• Intel Quartus Prime Pro Edition Software and Device Support Release Notes

1.1. New Features and Enhancements

Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition Software Version 20.1 includes functional and security updates. Keep your software up-to-date and follow the technical recommendations that help improve the security of your Intel Quartus Prime installation.

1.2. Changes to Software Behavior

This section documents instances in which the behavior and default settings of the Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition software have been changed from earlier releases of the Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition software.

• Support for the following software has been removed from Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition:
  • DSP Builder for Intel FPGAs
  • Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL™ (*)
  • Intel FPGA RTE for OpenCL
  • Intel High-Level Synthesis (HLS) Compiler
• Mentor Graphics* ModelSim*-Intel FPGA Edition included with Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition requires licensing daemon version 11.16.4.0 (or later). You can obtain the licensing daemon from the Intel FPGA License Daemon Downloads web page.

(*) OpenCL and the OpenCL logo are trademarks of Apple Inc. used by permission of the Khronos Group™

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1.3. Operating System Support

Information about operating system support for the Intel Quartus Prime Design Suite is available on the Operating System Support page of the Intel FPGA website.

As of Intel Quartus Prime Pro Edition Version 20.2, support for the following operating systems is deprecated and might be removed in a future release of Intel Quartus Prime Pro Edition:

• Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 6
• Ubuntu* Linux 14 LTS

Related Information

• Operating System Support
• Download Center for FPGAs

1.4. Memory Recommendations

A full installation of the Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition software requires up to 40 GB of available disk space.

Intel recommends that your system be configured to provide virtual memory equal to the recommended physical RAM that is required to process your design.

Note: Peak virtual memory might exceed these recommendations. These recommendations are based on the amount of physical memory required to achieve runtime within 10% of that achieved on hardware with an infinite amount of RAM.

Table 1. Memory Requirements for Processing Designs

These requirements are the same for both Windows and Linux installations.

1.5. Device Support and Pin-Out Status

All production devices currently have full compilation, simulation, timing analysis, and programming support.

1.5.1. Changes in Device Support

For Cyclone V devices, an updated IBIS model package is available online at the following web page: IBIS Models for Intel Devices. This updated IBIS model adds an S-parameter file. You must have the S-parameter file to perform IBIS simulation for Active Serial interfaces when you use a Cyclone V QS device.

For information about known device issues and workarounds, refer to the following web page: Intel FPGA Knowledge Base.

1.6. Timing Model, Power Model, and Device Status

Table 2. Timing Model, Power Model, and Device Status

The current version of the Intel Quartus Prime software also includes final timing and power models for the Arria II GX, Arria II GZ, Arria V, Arria V GZ, Arria V SoC, Cyclone IV E, Cyclone IV GX, Cyclone V, Cyclone V SoC, MAX II, MAX II Z, MAX V, Stratix IV, and Stratix V device families. Timing models for these device families became final in the Intel Quartus Prime software versions 11.1 or earlier.

⁽¹⁾ Devices with a -1 speed grade were finalized in Intel Quartus Prime software version 17.0

⁽²⁾ All military grade devices were finalized in Intel Quartus Prime software version 18.0.1.

⁽³⁾ Timing model statuses for MAX 10 A6 speed grade parts remain as Preliminary.

1.7. IBIS Models

Table 3. IBIS Model Status for the Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition Software Release Version 20.1

Beginning in the Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition software version 16.0, device families have IBIS model statuses that are either Advance, Preliminary, or Final.

Updated IBIS models are available online at the following web page: IBIS Models for Intel Devices. This page is updated as IBIS models for devices become available or are updated.

1.8. EDA Interface Information

Table 4. Synthesis Tools Supporting the Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition Software Release Version 20.1

Table 5. Simulation Tools Supporting the Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition Software Release Version 20.1

The following simulation tools provide RTL and functional gate-level simulation.

*Mentor Graphics ModelSim-Intel FPGA Edition requires licensing daemon version 11.16.4.0 (or later). You can obtain the licensing daemon from the Intel FPGA License Daemon Downloads web page.

Operating System Support for Mentor Graphics* ModelSim-Intel FPGA Edition version 2020.1 (requires 32-bit libraries)

• Windows 10 (64-bit)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64-bit)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (64-bit)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 11 (64-bit)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 12 (64-bit)

1.9. Antivirus Verification

The Intel Quartus Prime software release version 20.1 has been verified virus free with the following software:

Antivirus Verification Software

• McAfee VirusScan Command Line for Linux64 Version: 6.1.3.242
• AV Engine version: 6010.8670 for Linux64.
• Dat set version: 9562 created Mar 16 2020

1.10. Software Issues Resolved

The following customer service requests were fixed or otherwise resolved in Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition Version 20.1:

Table 6. Issues Resolved in the Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition Version 20.1

1.11. Software Patches Included in this Release

Table 7. Software Patches included in Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition Version 20.1

1.12. Latest Known Intel Quartus Prime Software Issues

Information about known issues that affect the Intel Quartus Prime Version 20.1 is available in the Intel Programmable Solutions Knowledge Base.

You can find known issue information for previous versions of the Quartus Prime software on the Intel FPGA Knowledge Base web page.

Information about known software issues that affect previous versions of the Quartus II software is available on the Intel Quartus Prime and Quartus II Software Support web page.

Information about issues affecting the Intel FPGA IP Library is available in the release notes for each IP. You can find the IP release notes on the Intel FPGAs and Programmable Devices Release Notes web page.

Related Information

• Intel FPGA Knowledge Base
• Intel Quartus Prime and Quartus II Software Support
• Intel FPGAs and Programmable Devices Release Notes

1.13. Document Revision History

Table 8. The Intel Quartus Prime Standard Edition Software Release Version 20.1 Document Revision History