Quartus design software

E170423

Electronic design automation software FPGA design tool Integrated development environment

Quartus design software is Altera’s integrated development environment used for designing, simulating, and implementing FPGA and CPLD digital logic circuits.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Quartus II	5
Quartus Prime	4
Altera Quartus II	2
Intel Quartus Prime	1
Quartus Prime design software	1
Quartus design software canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1499734 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Quartus design software
Context triple: [Altera, knownFor, Quartus design software]

A. Altera
Altera is a semiconductor company best known for its programmable logic devices (FPGAs) and related design tools, now operating as a subsidiary of Intel.
B. Lattice Semiconductor
Lattice Semiconductor is an American technology company that designs and manufactures low-power, programmable logic devices used in a wide range of electronics and embedded systems.
C. Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics is an American electronic design automation (EDA) company known for its software and hardware tools used to design and verify integrated circuits and electronic systems.
D. CPLDs
CPLDs (Complex Programmable Logic Devices) are reconfigurable digital integrated circuits used to implement custom logic functions in hardware, often for control, glue logic, and interface applications.
E. SoftQuad Software
SoftQuad Software was a pioneering Canadian software company best known for its early work on SGML and HTML editing tools that helped shape web publishing standards.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Quartus design software
Target entity description: Quartus design software is Altera’s integrated development environment used for designing, simulating, and implementing FPGA and CPLD digital logic circuits.

A. Altera
Altera is a semiconductor company best known for its programmable logic devices (FPGAs) and related design tools, now operating as a subsidiary of Intel.
B. Lattice Semiconductor
Lattice Semiconductor is an American technology company that designs and manufactures low-power, programmable logic devices used in a wide range of electronics and embedded systems.
C. Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics is an American electronic design automation (EDA) company known for its software and hardware tools used to design and verify integrated circuits and electronic systems.
D. CPLDs
CPLDs (Complex Programmable Logic Devices) are reconfigurable digital integrated circuits used to implement custom logic functions in hardware, often for control, glue logic, and interface applications.
E. SoftQuad Software
SoftQuad Software was a pioneering Canadian software company best known for its early work on SGML and HTML editing tools that helped shape web publishing standards.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Electronic design automation software ⓘ FPGA design tool ⓘ Integrated development environment ⓘ
developer	Altera ⓘ Intel ⓘ linked to: Intel Corporation
domain	Digital hardware design ⓘ Embedded systems development ⓘ
hasEdition	Lite Edition ⓘ Pro Edition ⓘ Standard Edition ⓘ
hasFeature	Device programming ⓘ IP core integration ⓘ Pin assignment editor ⓘ Place and route ⓘ SignalTap logic analyzer integration ⓘ Simulation integration ⓘ Synthesis ⓘ Timing analysis ⓘ
includesComponent	Quartus II ⓘ linked to: Quartus design software Quartus Prime ⓘ linked to: Quartus design software
integratesWith	Intel FPGA SDKs ⓘ ModelSim ⓘ
licenseModel	Proprietary software ⓘ
operatingSystem	Linux ⓘ Windows ⓘ
predecessor	MAX+PLUS II ⓘ
supportsFeature	Constraint management ⓘ Design partitioning ⓘ Incremental compilation ⓘ JTAG-based programming ⓘ Power analysis ⓘ Resource utilization reporting ⓘ
supportsFlow	Bitstream generation ⓘ Design entry ⓘ Device configuration ⓘ Synthesis and fitting ⓘ Timing closure ⓘ
supportsLanguage	SystemVerilog ⓘ VHDL ⓘ Verilog ⓘ
targetPlatform	CPLD ⓘ FPGA ⓘ
targetVendorDevice	Altera FPGA ⓘ linked to: Altera Intel FPGA ⓘ linked to: Altera
usedFor	CPLD design ⓘ Digital logic circuit design ⓘ FPGA design ⓘ Hardware description language compilation ⓘ

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