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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

Im not Sure if its the right place to post

I got Cyclone II FPGA starter Kit. I want to create an entity that will handle the seven segment in it in all my projects. something I can just add and it will automatically be assigned to the correc...
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17 years ago

Some info on tcl:

http://tmml.sourceforge.net/doc/tcl/index.html

http://www.doulos.com/knowhow/tcltk/

I would say it's worth looking at - particularly if you use Modelsim and get frustrated with the buggy GUI.

I don't think it's your salvation in this instance. I'm sure you could write a script to intelligently patch in your code and pin assignments to your VHDL but I wouldn't suggest that it would be a quick fix for your problem if you are totally new to Tcl.