A switch to detect whether a project contains a separated design partition ?

I usually run the following command after quartus_map:

$ quartus_cdb $qpf -c $qsf --merge=on

If there are partitions, they'll be merged. If not, nothing happens. But I also would like to know if there is a check to determine if there are partitions or not.

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What do you mean Quartus Tcl Compilation flow API? I always run "quartus_sh --flow compile <project_name>" and that mimics the pushbutton GUI flow, and will run partition merge if necessary. If that's what you're talking about that can't be run, I'm not sure of an easy way to work around it.

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Thanks for your reply, Rysc.

What I means is the TCL package for Full Compilation provided by Quartus.

% package require ::quartus::flow

% execute_flow -compile

I would like keep the flexibility to control when to run each process (map, cdb, fit, sta, and etc) in my regression tests so I'm avoiding the ONESHOT compilation switch.

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I usually run the following command after quartus_map:

$ quartus_cdb $qpf -c $qsf --merge=on

If there are partitions, they'll be merged. If not, nothing happens. But I also would like to know if there is a check to determine if there are partitions or not.

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Hi OutputLogic,

you means for a flat design, whether Partition Merge is run or not in compilation, the result(timing, resource utilization and etc) should be same?

Found. Can use [get_partition] switch to check number of partitions exists in design.

set partitions 
foreach p $partitions {
   if { ==1 &&  == "Source File"]} {
      set run_partition_merge 0
   } else {
      set run_partition_merge 1
   }
}