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gyuunyuu
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6 years ago

Is there a standard way to store and retrieve "build information" of an FPGA design?

The following things are to be stored inside the FPGA: 1. Build date 2. Build time 3. Build top level file name 4. Build repository commit number for version controlled design 5. Submodule repos...
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6 years ago

​Sorry, by build I meant the date and time of when the project was compiled. The item 3 is the ASCII name of the top level entity. The items 4 and 5 are related with Git based revision control system where we have hash number for the where we are on a branch in a repository.

Since customers would like to do this quite often, I would expect that Intel/Altera has created a method to achieve this which is supported by them?