Version Control of Quartus Project...

Be aware of files created by the wizzard if you have f.e. FIR components. that are part of a sopc component (somewhere deep down the instatiation tree...)

We curently gave up to store the FIR files inside an SOPC componente folder due to the reason that quartus will not find some *.hex files that must be located at the same folder where the *.qpf and *.ptf files are.

Especially these FIR wizzard created components cannot be located where you normaly place you sopc components for all project (search path) as the wizzard does some modification of some project files during generation and a different quartus project will not get these new informations.

Even a simply copy of such a sopc folder including all files (100% all files!) to a new qartus project will not work until you run the wizzard there again. and ... remember the *.hex files for FIR. Quartus will not find them if they are not located as i mentioned above. even including them to the files dialog of your project will not help. we have verified that serveral times and the only realy working solution is to make FIR designs flat inside the same folder as qpf and ptf. otherwise sometimes some files are not included and you start searching why your fir is not working anymore.... and to find these green warnings under serval thausand sopc warnings ... nice job :-)

so the only solution for storing such complex projects is a zip file for us.

no cvs (subversion, vss, ... ) realy helped here.

Regards

Michael