Altera, now part of Intel, announced the production release of the new Quartus Prime Pro design software, which further accelerates FPGA design performance and design team productivity. The Quartus Prime Pro software is architected to support the next generation of high capacity, highly integrated FPGAs from Intel, which will drive innovation across the cloud, data center, Internet of Things, and the networks that connect them. The capabilities built into the latest software release accelerate large FPGA design flows by delivering unprecedented compile time improvements, versatile design entry methods and simplified intellectual property (IP) integration.

The Quartus Prime Pro software 16.0 delivers a design methodology that is optimized for large designs with more than one million logic elements. At the same time, users can leverage the software's incremental optimization feature to reduce design iterations and accelerate timing closure.