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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

quartus_stp tcl scripts?

I'm looking for information on how to script quartus_stp. I typically instantiate a megawizard plugin generated stp component. I can then do this:

quartus_stp myproject --create_signaltap_hdl_file --stp_file=cli.stp

But I would like to know how to do the following from a quartus_stp tcl script:

set the jtag target

select a signaltap instance if there are more than one

group some signals

set trigger

run until trigger

grab the data into a tcl array or to stdout

I can't seem to find any documentation on how to do this. I would be happy for pointer to docs or sample scripts on this issue.

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    17 years ago

    I expect that the are no other stp commands than those listed in quartus ii scripting reference manual. Do you know this document?

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    17 years ago

    Thank you for your reply. Yes I'm familiar with the document. It only describes the command line parameters and not any tcl commands for performing stp operations like I mentioned. I was hoping that it would be possible to do everything you can do from the GUI from tcl :(

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    17 years ago

    Thanks! It appears that the information that I'm looking for is in the TCL API section. I'll check it out.

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    17 years ago

    BTW, I found scripting signaltap itself kind of a pain. The sourceProbe and memory content editor (documented in the same doc as the signaltap api i believe) lend themselves to scripting far better than signaltap.