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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Qsys and version control

I would like to put the minimum number of files under version control to recreate a project. For Qsys, is the .qsys file sufficient? If so, why does the .sopcinfo file exist? Is there a way t...
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15 years ago

The qsys file should be sufficient.

The command line tool that takes the qsys file as input and uses it to generate the system is called ip-generate. You could easily create a shell script to call this with the correct parameters to regenerate your system.

You can get an example of the correct parameters to pass to ip-generate by generating your system using the qsys GUI. When you generate the system from the GUI, it prints out the ip-generate command line that it uses at the beginning of it's output.