Documentation and manuals for Quatus 3.0...

Hi Kelvin,

If you are new to Quartus II and want a quick description of the capabilities present in the Quartus II tool, read the Quartus II Manual first. The manual is available at:

Before reading the Quartus II Handbook you may want to look at the Quartus Online demos. These links will point you to the movie piece (listed under the Self running Documentation column for each topic) as well as the relevant section in the Quartus II handbook (under the Documentation column for each topic). These require a browser and are available at:

The Quartus II Handbook addresses, how to use the Quartus II tools for design entry, synthesis, place and route, simulation, timing analysis, device programming , and interfacingwith other EDA tools like Modelsim, VCS, Synplify. Sections 7 and 8 of the Quartus II Handbook should address most of your questions about Quartus Integrated synthesis for VHDL and Verilog. This handbook document is located at:

A quick summary of Quartus II and the Xilinx tools is available at:

Finally if you are familiar with the Xilinx flow, read App Note 307, about how to convert a Xilinx design into Altera. It has examples how to convert designs constraints and with with Coregen modules (e.g. memory, dll's, multipliers, DDR designs ...). It also covers the command line tools for synthesis, place and route and timing analysis and their switches for the equivalent Quartus II tools, quartus_map, quartus_fit, quartus_tan. App Note

Hope this helps.

- Subroto Datta Altera Corp.