Electronic design automation tools

- 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 …