Hi all,
So I have a 32 old boards, each with 8 stratix-3 '150-1 chips on them from a past project where I didn't do the design, it seems like there's still some stuff I could do with that sort of FPGA resource, so I'm interested in finding out my options. Looking around it seems the last version of Quartus that supported these was the subscription edition of 13.1, but if I go to the downloads page, it says the subscription edition isn't available. So, questions:
1) What's the cheapest way (hey, this is just a hobby! All purchases must carry a full edition of Wife-ApprovalTM) to get a functional Quartus 13.1 ? Is it even still available to buy ? What if I buy (this is only speculative, and hasn't been floated with the Marriage Unit :)) a Stratix-3 development kit that comes with "a one year licence") - will that work ? It's more than I wanted to spend (at $2500) but if it's the only option...
2) If I have to buy a board to get the software, I'm limited to Altera boards only, right ? Terasic have the "Altera DE3 Development System", which is a bit more palatable at $1535, but I don't think it comes with a Quartus license, and since this is the entire point of buying the board...
3) It looks as though RHEL6 is the latest version of Linux that this will run under. I can do this in a VM, but I already have an RHEL7 box with fast CPUs and gobs of RAM so if anyone knows if it'll run under RHEL 7.2, I'd love to find out.
Cheers
Simon.
So I have a 32 old boards, each with 8 stratix-3 '150-1 chips on them from a past project where I didn't do the design, it seems like there's still some stuff I could do with that sort of FPGA resource, so I'm interested in finding out my options. Looking around it seems the last version of Quartus that supported these was the subscription edition of 13.1, but if I go to the downloads page, it says the subscription edition isn't available. So, questions:
1) What's the cheapest way (hey, this is just a hobby! All purchases must carry a full edition of Wife-ApprovalTM) to get a functional Quartus 13.1 ? Is it even still available to buy ? What if I buy (this is only speculative, and hasn't been floated with the Marriage Unit :)) a Stratix-3 development kit that comes with "a one year licence") - will that work ? It's more than I wanted to spend (at $2500) but if it's the only option...
2) If I have to buy a board to get the software, I'm limited to Altera boards only, right ? Terasic have the "Altera DE3 Development System", which is a bit more palatable at $1535, but I don't think it comes with a Quartus license, and since this is the entire point of buying the board...
3) It looks as though RHEL6 is the latest version of Linux that this will run under. I can do this in a VM, but I already have an RHEL7 box with fast CPUs and gobs of RAM so if anyone knows if it'll run under RHEL 7.2, I'd love to find out.
Cheers
Simon.