port width definition by generic

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If you have generics on your top-level entity, they can be set in Quartus using Tcl commands. For example, a design with a timestamp and version register can have the contents defined via

#  Build timestamp#   - Tcl  returns the same as 
set timestamp 
puts " - Build timestamp  ($timestamp 0x)"
#  Version (integer format)
set version 
#  Generics
set_parameter -name VERSION   $version
set_parameter -name TIMESTAMP $timestamp

Cheers,

Dave

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Thank you all it was easier then thought :)

dwh, using tcl is one more thing I need to learn...

you mean that from the tcl I can change the value of generic?

so in your example VERSION and TIMESTAMP are defined in the VHDL code as generics, std_logic_vector or custom type?

Cool!