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11 years ago

How to change the default name of *.sof file in Quartus

Dear Altera Users, Where can I change the default *.sof name in the settings of quartus ? I want to create different files (file1.sof, file2.sof, ....) different compilations for the pro...
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11 years ago

What I do is have a post-flow script run at the end of each compile and put the .sof and .rbf into a folder with a revision number in the name of the folder. I have quartus configured to put the build outputs into a build_outputs folder in the project directory and then have a simple tcl script copy and rename the files. In the qsf I use the post flow script assignment to execute my script:

set_global_assignment -name POST_FLOW_SCRIPT_FILE "<path_to_my_script>.tcl"