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8 years ago

Passing parameter/generic to the top level in Quartus/tcl?

I'm trying to pass a git sha1 as a parameter to the top level in Quartus tcl I added a source probe: gits u_gits (.probe (160'habbaface000000000000000000000000acdcba...
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8 years ago

It's not difficult to generate rtl code, but to me it's much simpler to put 

set_parameter -name GIT_SHA1 160'h$sha1

into my build script. It's actually already there. It just doesn't work. I already have the same structure in my other scripts for simulation and build for other vendors.