Bitstream of FPGA

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Hello, I have to do a work for the university. And I am a bit lost.  

 That is exactly the bitstream of the FPGA?   And as do I it generate? When I compile with Quartus II?  Regards

[Altera_Forum]

The bitstream is the file that is loaded into the FPGA at power on - FPGAs are volotile so cannot store data when the power is off. They need some method to program them at power on. 

 You can generate the programming file during the assembler phase of compilation in Quartus.