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13 years ago

Embedding build number in VHDL?

I'd like some automatic way of putting a build or release or version number into my design so that I can check what version a given PCB is programmed with. Can anyone suggest how to do this? I...
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13 years ago

It doesn't really work with SVN because the SVN revision number is the file's revision, not the tree's. So if you don't modify the tcl script itself, it will keep an old revision number. Most SVN installations have a utility that can be used to get the highest SVN revision number in a whole tree though, and it should be possible to call it from the tcl script.