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17 years ago

automatic firmware revision for VHDL

Dear Experts, i'd like to introduce to my design one register containing a firmware revision. Very probably the firmware revision would be a data when the VHDL code was checked out from the CV...
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17 years ago

I don't how to read in the CVS info, but the action should be basically possible through a Tcl script executed as PRE_FLOW_SCRIPT_FILE. How to define a pre-compilation script has been recently discussed in the forum, e. g. http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1996 and is also documented in the quartus ii version 7.2 handbook volume 2, section 3. tcl scripting, automating script execution.

Tcl is a full featured script interpreter includiing file-IO and text processing commands, so it should be able to e. g. write the intended information to a VHDL constant definition.