
Chapter 2: Software Installation 2–3
Installing the Altera SoC Embedded Development Suite (EDS)
June 2014 Altera Corporation Arria V SoC Development Kit
User Guide
7. Click Activate Selected Products, and click Close.
8. When licensing is complete, Altera emails a license.dat file to you. Store the file on
your computer and use the License Setup page of the Options dialog box in the
Quartus II software to enable the software.
To license the Quartus II software, you need your computer’s network interface
card (NIC) ID, a number that uniquely identifies your computer. On the computer
you use to run the Quartus II software, type
ipconfig
/all
at a command prompt
to determine the NIC ID. Your NIC ID is the 12-digit hexadecimal number on the
Physical Address line.
For complete licensing details, refer to the Altera Software Installation and Licensing
Manual.
Installing the Altera SoC Embedded Development Suite (EDS)
The Altera SoC EDS is a comprehensive tool suite for embedded software
development on Altera SoC devices. It contains development tools, utility programs,
run-time software, and application examples to expedite firmware and application
software of SoC embedded systems.
As a part of the Altera SoC EDS, the ARM DS-5 Altera Edition Toolkit provides a
comprehensive set of embedded development tools for Altera SoCs.
f For more information, refer to the ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5) Altera Edition
Toolkit.
f For the steps to install the SoC EDS Tool Suite, refer to the Altera SoC Embedded
Design Suite User Guide.
Installing the Development Kit
Perform these steps:
1. Download the Arria V SoC Development Kit installer from the Arria V SoC
Development Kit page of the Altera website. Alternatively, you can request a
development kit DVD from the Altera Kit Installations DVD Request Form page of
the Altera website.
2. Start the Arria V SoC Development Kit installer .exe for Windows, or unzip the
installation image for Linux.
3. Choose an installation directory that is relative to the Quartus II software
installation directory. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the
installation process.
4. For the latest issues and release notes, Altera recommends that you review the
readme.txt located in the root directory of the kit installation.
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