Jamie Iles

Quartus Prime has an IDE interface for building FPGA projects which can work well, but for me it falls short in a few areas. We’ll look at how we can integrate Quartus FPGA building in CMake so it can be built along with the rest of a project.

Intel FPGAs use the Quartus Prime software for synthesis and on Linux, the supported OS is Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is possible to run Quartus Prime on Ubuntu too with some extra steps, but this is not supported by Intel. By installing Quartus Prime into a Docker image, we can make it easy to quickly deploy the tools to other systems including laptops and continuous integration jobs.