Running Quartus on an Apple Mac

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Has anyone tried running Quartus on a Mac, using Parallels etc? 

 Any luck?  Thanks Hamish

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Yes, parallels is a Virtual Machine, like Vmware.

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Oh ok, sorry I didn't know that one... thx ;)

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I read thru this thread and don't have enough information to be certain this will work. I recently tried to install a Quartus programmer (V11.0) under a virtual window of VMWARE. Running WindowsXP. Programmer seems to execute the gui, but even tho we have installed the USB Blaster driver and hardware sees the blaster, the programmer doesn't. Can't figure out where the disconnect is in the driver/application connection to the USB Blaster. Anyone who can help, this would be cool! 

GKR

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i had the same problem with 11.0 programmer on a real windows machine. try 10.1sp1. there's a recent thread on this issue

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I got it to work using Wine: appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=2847

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I took a quick glance at WineHD, but didn't read all about it.  

What is this app?  How does it help with running Quartus?  Did this fix the problem of using the Altera programmer and Signaltap features with the USB-Blaster? Were there special steps in setting this up to work properly? Is this letting Quartus run native in the MAC OS or is this the VMware and Windows version?  See.... lots of questions... :)

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--- Quote Start ---  I took a quick glance at WineHD, but didn't read all about it.  What is this app?  --- Quote End ---   winehq.org/about/   --- Quote Start ---  How does it help with running Quartus?  --- Quote End ---   Wine will run many Windows programs.   --- Quote Start ---  Did this fix the problem of using the Altera programmer and Signaltap features with the USB-Blaster?  --- Quote End ---   I don't know. I am quite new to Altera stuff.   --- Quote Start ---  Were there special steps in setting this up to work properly?  --- Quote End ---   I had an installation disk. I mounted the CD, opened up Terminal, navigated to the directory containing the installation file (optional), and entered wine <program name>. I obviously didn't use "<program name>". After the installation was complete with all default settings, I am now able to use Quartis with the following Terminal command:  wine ~/.wine/drive_c/altera/71/quartus/bin/quartus.exe  I went farther by making an alias for this command so that I can just type in quartis to run the program.   --- Quote Start ---  Is this letting Quartus run native in the MAC OS or is this the VMware and Windows version?  --- Quote End ---   Native. :)

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For those of you wondering...I have been running quarts 11.0 successfully on vmware 3 on my quad core iMac for several months no issues. That includes the nios sbt eclipse suite. I recently switched parallels after upgrading to lion and have encountered some issues with sbt communication via jtag. No issues with lion and parallels on wii v11.0 or spa

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For those still looking...I am running Parallels 7 on lion os x, and quartus installed on windows 7 x64. I have been running both qii x64 and Nios sbt/eclipse for several months...no issue. Works great! I have a quad core iMac with 2 upro dedicated to parallels and 4 GB of ram. (12GB machine) compiling arria ii gx design in no time. also have an ssd.. ;-)

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Hello, 

 I am thinking about using the Altera DE2-70 Digital Camera Development Platform for some image processing work.  Goal: read images from a digital camera, SD card and/or PC (MacBook Pro). Processing the algorithm on the FPGA and than display the image on LCD and/or (PC) screen.   I am running OSX version 10.6.8. The idea is to use Parallels and than install Ubuntu. The idea is to communicate, program with the board under Ubuntu. Will this work. Or do I best use vmware fusion.   Thanks.  Regards, J

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Hey, 

I am still using Parallels for Lion (forgot the rev) and running 10.7.2 for several months now (both 11.0 and 11.1)...no issues. I am using the vip suite w/nios on quartus 11.1 with nios sbt 11.1 and system console 11.1....again no issues.  I haven't tried the ubuntu path...I know you need some special configuration within your cshrc to get quartus to launch...and I know some folks on the forum have done some nice work getting it to run. However, I chose to run the win 7 x64 path and am very happy. I believe fusion will work just as well...just so happened that some other programs my wife needs on my iMac recommend Parallels (autodesk stuff), so I chose parallels.  Good luck!