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13 years ago

How to run TCl to do operation in Quartus II?

Recently, I am learning Tcl scripting language, try to program Tcl to operate the Quartus II. I watched the free training in Altera website, it shows many example codes but I still don't know where I...
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13 years ago

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That is correct.

TCL = Tool Command Language

Its a language for controlling (scripting) tools.

You write your code in VHDL, you write timing constraints in Tcl (in an .sdc) file, you can manage the Quartus and Modelsim project build sequence using Tcl, and you can post-process timing analysis results using Tcl.

Cheers,

Dave

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Thanks very much, Dave!