Quartus is electronic design automation (EDA) software from Altera Corporation. It is used to design and simulate digital logic circuits using schematics and hardware description languages. An extensive toolset is provided to simulate the behavior of the circuit, tweak circuit performance, and to compile the design to a programmable file for placement in one of the Altera complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs) or field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). A CPLD or FPGA takes the place of many interconnected components as a single-chip solution to a design problem. Students in CE1911 will use Quartus extensively.