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14 years ago

Generics on the command line

Does anyone know of a way to pass a generic value in to my top-level VHDL design from a command-line build flow? For instance, if my top level file has Generic ( STAMP : integer ); ...
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14 years ago

There is a "quartus_map --set" option to change QSF assignments, but I don't know if it works for Parameters. I would suggest writing a proper script instead of calling --tcl_eval:

quartus_sh -t set_date.tcl

where set_date.tcl will use Tcl to get the date and set it on the QSF.