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13 years ago

TCL Macro for Top-Level Schematic to Verilog Conversion (For ModelSim Simulation)

I put together a little TCL script that automatically converts a schematic top-level entity to Verilog to help streamline preparation for ModelSim.

(This script improves the native Quartus b2v conversion tool and automatically swaps out the top-level for you.)

I put together a blog post talking about it here:

http://idle-logic.com/2012/06/09/tcl-macro-for-top-level-schematic-to-verilog-conversion-for-modelsim-simulation/

I thought I might share it on the Altera Forums to reach a wider audience of people who might be interesting in this type of script.

--Chris

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    13 years ago

    Cool. Note that the inst# can be changed directly in the schematic, just right-click on a symbol and go to properties and change it there.

    Rather than having the .qsf source the .tcl file directly, you can make it a pre-flow script, so that it runs at the beginning of a compile. (There are other posts).

    This might make for a good alterawiki page, with a link to your script, so others who do this flow could add their thoughts. Just an thought.
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    13 years ago

    Thanks for the feedback Rysc. I just tried out your tip and I see how it totally improves the b2v inst# naming, very nice.

    I like the pre-flow script idea, putting the "source b2vFixer.tcl" in the .qsf seemed to work, but it seemed a little kludgy having to hand edit this file.

    When I have some more time I'll try putting together an alterawiki page for it.