Altera Launches QuartusIQ, An AI Expert Companion for Quartus Prime Software
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Altera announces QuartusIQ, an AI expert companion designed to accelerate the FPGA development cycle from design intent through signoff.
QuartusIQ helps engineers create, debug, validate and close timing in Quartus® Prime Pro through natural-language interaction, project-aware FPGA knowledge and reusable Quartus Skills.
QuartusIQ can help teams apply project-aware workflows to FPGA designs, including Physical AI designs that combine sensor interfaces, real-time data movement, AI processing and deterministic control.
QuartusIQ is optimized to run on NVIDIA DGX Station for Windows, the world's most powerful deskside AI supercomputer to build and run powerful AI agents connected to Windows applications and workflows. The on-premises deployment option helps organizations keep sensitive design data and intellectual property within their own environment.
SAN JOSE, Calif., October 21, 2026--Altera Corporation, the largest pure-play FPGA provider with a full-spectrum portfolio, today introduced QuartusIQ, an AI expert companion for Quartus Prime Pro software designed to accelerate the complete FPGA development flow. QuartusIQ helps FPGA developers apply expert guidance and repeatable workflows within Quartus Prime, enabling users to create, debug and validate designs more efficiently, resolve issues with greater confidence and move from design intent to signoff faster.
With QuartusIQ, developers use natural-language prompts to work through design tasks and automate routine analysis. Because it understands the active Quartus project, including device, IP, constraints, reports and timing data, QuartusIQ can help identify the next steps for meeting timing and completing verification, while engineers remain in control of key design decisions.
Altera expects QuartusIQ to help developers shave months off the path to production, with up to 1.5X faster¹ total design cycles through simpler development and faster design closure. On a 24-month design cycle, that level of improvement could represent several months saved.
"FPGA developers are under increasing pressure to deliver more capable designs while managing growing device, IP, timing and verification complexity," said Farhad Shafai, head of Business Solutions and Marketing at Altera. "Agentic AI brings expert guidance and workflow automation into the development environment, helping engineers spend less time searching for information and coordinating routine tasks, and more time making the design decisions that move products toward production. With QuartusIQ, customers can apply project-aware FPGA expertise across the design flow while keeping engineers in control."