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Running Quartus + Questa on Apple Silicon

The current methods to run an Intel FPGA workflow on Apple Silicon involve two possibile approaches:

• Using a WoA Virtual Machine: Performance is terrible (already in amd64 Windows platforms is terrible, adding a virtualization layer on top of it leads to eternal compilation times) + space wasted for all the Microsoft bloatware
• Using a Docker Container: Performance is better than WoA, but the USB drivers are not working

Running Ubuntu on UTM with Rosetta enabled should tackle these problems

Configuring the virtual machine

• Download UTM
• Download the latest nightly build of Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS for ARM64 (also Debian works, with minor workarounds for multiarch repos)
• Download the desired Quartus installer for Linux (e.g. the [Lite edition](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/software-kit/825277/intel-quartus-prime-lite-edition-design-software-version-23-1-1-for-linux.h

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Go to Bitbucket and create a new repository (its better to have an empty repo)
    git clone git@bitbucket.org:abc/myforkedrepo.git
    cd myforkedrepo

Now add Github repo as a new remote in Bitbucket called "sync"
    git remote add sync git@github.com:def/originalrepo.git

Verify what are the remotes currently being setup for "myforkedrepo". This following command should show "fetch" and "push" for two remotes i.e. "origin" and "sync"
    git remote -v

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Set Variables for Docker
DOCKER_GPG_URL="https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg"
DOCKER_COMPOSE_VERSION="v2.1.0"

# Remove older versions
sudo apt-get remove -y docker docker-engine docker.io containerd runc

# Update the catalog and install basic dependencies of docker