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11 years ago

Enable signaltap in quartus_sh build?

I do my builds using tcl scripts. I usually do the full build by running quartus_sh -t build.tcl Where build.tcl will create the project, do assignments and then run compile Howe...
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11 years ago

I've never really understood the SignalTap interface via Tcl, but it's definitely non-standard. Here's something I put together for somebody else that worked. Change project_name to your project name:

project_open project_name

post_message "Setting SignalTap II Logic Analyzer settings."

post_message "Assignments --> Settings --> SignaTap II Logic Analyzer"

# Note that these assignments are unnecessary, as the quartus_stp call really adds the .stp, but this makes the .qsf match what was run

set_global_assignment -name SIGNALTAP_FILE mystp.stp

set_global_assignment -name ENABLE_SIGNALTAP ON

set_global_assignment -name USE_SIGNALTAP_FILE mystp.stp

set_global_assignment -name PARTITION_NETLIST_TYPE STRICT_POST_FIT -section_id Top

set_global_assignment -name PARTITION_FITTER_PRESERVATION_LEVEL PLACEMENT_AND_ROUTING -section_id Top

export_assignments; post_message -type info "Exporting Assignments..."

qexec "quartus_stp --stp_file mystp.stp --enable project_name"

qexec "quartus_map --read_settings_files=on --write_settings_files=off project_name -c rev_name"

qexec "quartus_cdb project_name --merge"

qexec "quartus_fit --read_settings_files=off --write_settings_files=off project_name -c rev_name"

qexec "quartus_asm --read_settings_files=off --write_settings_files=off project_name -c rev_name"

project_close