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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

Absolute paths preventing project re-use

After running synthesis and fitter, I archived my project into a .qar file and sent it to a colleague. He restores the .qar, tries to generate a programming file but gets a warning about a missing en...
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14 years ago

Use Tcl?

Project -> Generate Tcl File For Project

Generates a script that I think can be used directly to re-synthesize a project.

I generally write Tcl synthesis scripts from scatch, and use the above menu option to find out Tcl syntax for options (rather than looking them up in the scripting manual). This scheme allows you to use just the Quartus Tcl command-line to synthesize a project (it generates the .qpf, qsf, files etc). Its completely independent of Quartus version.

Given that you are sending him encrypted IP, I assume its not locked to your work machine.

What evaluation boards do you have? If I have the same one, I'll send you a simple example script and design files.

Cheers,

Dave