What is Quartus?

Quartus Prime is a software tool developed by Intel (formerly Altera) for designing and developing digital circuits on programmable logic devices (PLDs) such as FPGAs and CPLDs. It provides a comprehensive environment for hardware description language (HDL) entry (VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog), synthesis, place and route, timing analysis, and simulation. Quartus Prime is commonly used by hardware engineers to implement custom digital logic, embedded systems, and signal processing applications in a flexible and reconfigurable manner.