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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

Can parameter or generic be set from Quartus II?

Hi, Is there any way to set values to parameter or generic in Verilog/VHDL RTL code with the Quartus II? I want to change the parameters inside megacore without modifting RTL code. Thanks
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15 years ago

Yes changing a package in the qsf would be an option but we potentially have many variations (based on the generic) of the same build and hence many qsfs. So what we are going to do is set up the project with a bash script that changes the single paramater setting in some tcl accordingly, and then runs the tcl to set up the project.

I've got a top level called "fred_top" with a generic called "width" which by default is 8. What I try and do is change that value by setting the following in the qsf but unfortunaletly it doesn't seem to work. 

set_parameter -name width 16 -to fred_top

Any ideas appreciated.