How to run Intel Quartus® Prime Lite Edition via Parallels on a Mac with Apple Silicon (ARM64)

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Learn how to run Intel Quartus® Prime Lite Edition via Parallels on a Mac with Apple Silicon (ARM64).

Yesterday’s post How to run Intel Quartus® Prime Lite Edition via Remote Desktop covered how to set-up and run the Quartus tools from a separate Windows machine via Remote Desktop.

This follow-up post covers how to install the exact same tools in a Windows VM running in Parallels on a Mac with Apple Silicon (ARM64). This is a nice alternative if you don’t have an extra Windows machine available, or if you want to be able to edit Windows files directly from your Mac via Parallels file sharing.

How to run Intel Quartus® Prime Lite Edition via Remote Desktop

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Make sure to check out the follow up article How to run Intel Quartus® Prime Lite Edition via Parallels on a Mac with Apple Silicon (ARM64)

Learn how to run Intel Quartus® Prime Lite Edition via Remote Desktop.

I recently obtained a Terasic DE0-CV FPGA dev board and needed to install/configure licensing for the accompanying Intel® Quartus® Prime Lite Edition FPGA design software.

The Quartus Prime software requires an x86-64 machine running either Windows or Linux, but my laptop is an ARM-based Macbook Pro running macOS which is not supported.

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How to run Intel Quartus® Prime Lite Edition via Parallels on a Mac with Apple Silicon (ARM64)

How to run Intel Quartus® Prime Lite Edition via Remote Desktop