QSYS output (synthesis) directory workaround?

Hi Joe,

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If I understand correctly you use an environment variable in your .qip files. This is not as easy-to-use as it was with SOPC builder but at least it is a lot easier than manually editing the qip file generated by QSYS. For the time being this will work just fine but I hope Altera will fix this in future versions.

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The qsys Tcl package allows the use of ::env, whereas the sopc Tcl package did not. I use $::env(VHDL) to point to my source area, that way the scripts are portable between my various machines (the CVS checkout can be to a different folder).

Both SOPC and Qsys have their "issues", eg., inability to handle VHDL reals, problems with booleans, etc. However, the wrapper solution shown in the attached zip avoids the issues with Qsys VHDL generics support.

Cheers,

Dave