Procedures

Commands

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In the Quartus^® II software, you can run Tcl commands or create and run Tcl scripts to do the following tasks in a Quartus II project:

• Make assignments
• Obtain information
• Run compilations
• Perform timing analysis
• Import LogicLock^™ region assignments
• Run simulations
• Perform a software build
• Collect system-level debugging information
• Make device assignments
• Interact with a source code control system
• Define design constraints

The Quartus II Application Programming Interface (API) provides functions in the following categories for use as Tcl commands that control or get information about Quartus II projects:

• Project control functions
• Project (project) functions
• Compiler (cmp) functions
• Timing analysis (cmp) functions
• LogicLock (cmp) functions
• Simulator (sim) functions
• Software build (swb) functions
• System-level debugging (sld) functions
• Device database (device) functions
• Source code control (scc) functions
• Global functions
• Synopsys^® Design Constraints functions

You can use the Quartus II Text Editor or another standard text editor to create Tcl scripts containing the above API functions and other Tcl commands. You should save a Tcl script as a Tcl Script File (.tcl).  Examples

You can generate a Tcl Script File for an existing project created through the Quartus II software that can be used as a baseline for another project. You can also use Tcl templates and Quartus II Tcl templates to create Tcl scripts.

You can run Tcl commands in an interactive environment called the "wish shell" or in the Quartus II Tcl Console window. You can run Tcl scripts in Tcl command-line mode, in the Quartus II Tcl Console window, or from the Tcl Scripts dialog box.

	More information is available on Tcl on the Altera® web site.

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