The Quartus University Interface Program: enabling advanced FPGA research

FPGA researchers constantly face the challenge of determining whether their innovations will work in the real world. The Quartus University Interface Program (QUIP) allows the researcher to answer this important question by directly integrating research prototypes within one of the FPGA industry´s leading CAD tool suites. This work describes the QUIP interface as well as research projects that are of significant interest to the FPGA industry.