Altera, a purchased subsidiary of Intel, offers the highly popular QUARTUS development software. We’ve received some questions recently about whether this software license includes Altera/Intel’s NIOS II or NIOS V software as well. Does it?
Newer versions of the QUARTUS software do come bundled with NIOS II and V, per Altera/Intel’s documentation on the product. For further information, you can check out our TechForum post Intel® Quartus®, Questa®, and Nios® II Software Installation and Licensing.