Altera® FPGA Development Tools Overview - Our suite of FPGA software and development tools for Altera® FPGAs, CPLDs, and SoCs assist hardware engineers and software developers when creating an FPGA design. Product Pages Broadcast Consumer Industrial Test Wireline Medical Aerospace, Defense, and Government Transportation Access Wireless Data Center Cloud ASIC Prototyping Networking A complete suite of development tools for every stage of your Altera® FPGA, SoC, or CPLD design. Whether you're building hardware, writing embedded software, modeling DSP algorithms, or architecting full systems, the right tool is ready to accelerate your workflow. FPGA AI Suite Quartus Prime Design Software Power and Thermal Analyzer Questa* – Altera FPGA Edition Visual Designer Studio (Beta) Advanced Link Analyzer Open FPGA Stack (OFS) Transceiver Toolkit Nios V Ashling RISCFree IDE Visual Designer Studio (Beta) Intel Simics Simulator for Altera FPGAs ARM DS DSP Builder Altera FPGA Add-on for oneAPI Base Toolkit P4 Suite for FPGAs Guided Journey for Software Developers Agilex 3 Software Development Guided Journey Agilex 3 Software Development Guided Journey Agilex 5 Software Development Guided Journey Agilex 5 Software Development Guided Journey Agilex 7 Software Development Guided Journey Agilex 7 Software Development Guided Journey Developer Communities The Nios System Forum is a dedicated space for developers working with Nios II and Nios V soft-processor systems on FPGAs to ask technical questions, share configurations (BSP/HAL/FreeRTOS) and troubleshoot embedded-processor challenges. Explore the Nios Community Nios Developers The Acceleration forum is a community space for engineers working with FPGA-based acceleration stacks such as the Open FPGA Stack (OFS), FPGA AI Suite and high-level design flows, to ask questions, share insights and troubleshoot issues together. Explore the Acceleration Community Acceleration Developers Explore Partner Software Altera Solution Acceleration Partner offers partner software, OS, and RTOS. Partner Software