Posted on 15 May 2019, 11:16 AM
Last updated 15 May 2019, 11:35 AM
On Tuesday 9th April 2019, Faculty of Electrical Engineering staffs have organized a talk regarding Quartus II Software. This talk basically exposed and showed tutorial about this software for students especially first year students. The talk was held at the new building P19 located BK4. It lasted for three hours starting from 2 to 5 pm. The talk was conducted by lecturers. The speaker, Dr Izam Bin Kamisan and accompanied by Dr Amirjan Bin Nawabjan and Dr Afiq Nurudin Bin Hamzah.
The main objective for this talk is to give students new information about a software named Quartus II. Quartus II is a programmable logic device design software produced by Intel; prior to Intel's acquisition of Altera the tool was called Altera Quartus II. Quartus Prime enables analysis and synthesis of HDL designs, which enables the developer to compile their designs, perform timing analysis, examine RTL diagrams, simulate a design's reaction to different stimuli, and configure the target device with the programmer. Quartus Prime includes an implementation of VHDL and Verilog for hardware description, visual editing of logic circuits, and vector waveform simulation.
The reason why we as first year students need to learn about this software is because we have a group assignment that need us to deal with this software. For my section, we were handed an assignment that required us to display 12 digits identity card numbers using electronics devices such as NAND, NOR, multiplexer, decoder and other logic gates. In order for us to obtain the output of our circuit, we used this software to simulate our circuit’s output. By using Quartus II, we produced waveform for the output based on our time and interval preferences.
Lastly, this software help us a lot in order to succeed our assignment. I also believe that Quartus II will help us in the future as there is many years to come in this electronics field. I cannot wait to explore more and learn more!
