- Just like the case of IDEs for software develepment,
there are a special tools for hardware development,
called electronic design automation, or EDA tools.
These developing tools usually contain
a schematic capture application and HDL code editor,
a simulator and debugger,
printed circuit design tools,
and even software development tools
for the onboard microcontrollers
or soft processors in FBGAs.
Intel's EDA tool is called Quartus Prime.
In this course, we'll see the light edition
of Quartus Prime which can be downloaded for free
at Intel's website,
and does not require a license.
In the download page, you get to choose
the supported devices.
Remember that we'll use the DE0-CV board,
which contains a cyclone 5 FBGA.
We'll also use the ModelSim simulator,
which is part of Quartus Prime.
The Vivado Suite is Xilinx's EDA tool.
There is a free license download for Vivado,
called the Webpack.
It comes with everything you need to develop an application
for the basis three board.
Vivado simulator is called XSim.