how to pass a date user code from Synplify to Quartus?

[Pierre-Louis]

Hello,
At this time I write manually in the field "user code" of Quartus an
hexadecimal 8 digits timebased code, which is displayed in the window of
the FPGA programmer.
And often, I forget to to fill up this field in the setting of Quartus, and
I read back FFFFFFFF!

I have a lot of different FPGA to synthetise , so I start up Symplify in a
loop in a TCL script, and then Quartus is launched by Synplify and reads the
tcl script written by Synplify.

Is there any way to do that automatically, by passing this parameter from
Symplify?? I know the way to automatically pass a time based constant or a
generic to Symplify, and put it in a special register on ROM, but I think
that the User Code of the FPGA is the right place to put this value!!
Thanks,
Pierre-Louis

 

[Petter Gustad]

"Pierre-Louis" <none.none@hotmail.com> writes:

Is there any way to do that automatically, by passing this parameter from
Symplify?? I know the way to automatically pass a time based constant or a

You could make the synthesis script generate a file with the constant,
and then source this file from the the quartus script where you do
jtag programming.

Petter

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