Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition User Guide: Platform Designer

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Date 12/12/2022
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8.7. Generate a Platform Designer System with qsys-script

You can use the qsys-script utility to create and manipulate a Platform Designer system with Tcl scripting commands. If you specify a system, Platform Designer loads that system before executing any of the scripting commands.
Note: You must provide a package version for the qsys-script. If you do not specify the --package-version=<value> command, you must then provide a Tcl script and request the system scripting API directly with the package require -exact qsys<version> command.

Platform Designer Command-Line Scripting

qsys-script --script=my_script.tcl \
--system-file=fancy.qsys

my_script.tcl contains:

package require -exact qsys 16.0
# get all instance names in the system and print one by one
set instances [ get_instances ]
foreach instance $instances {
    send_message Info "$instance"
}

You can use the following options with the qsys-script utility:

Table 205.  qsys-script Command-Line Options
Option Usage Description
--system-file=<file> Optional Specifies the path to a .qsys file. Platform Designer loads the system before running scripting commands.
--script=<file> Optional A file that contains Tcl scripting commands that you can use to create or manipulate a Platform Designer system. If you specify both --cmd and --script, Platform Designer runs the --cmd commands before the script specified by --script.
--cmd=<value> Optional A string that contains Tcl scripting commands that you can use to create or manipulate a Platform Designer system. If you specify both --cmd and --script, Platform Designer runs the --cmd commands before the script specified by --script.
--package-version=<value> Optional Specifies which Tcl API scripting version to use and determines the functionality and behavior of the Tcl commands. The Intel® Quartus® Prime software supports Tcl API scripting commands. The minimum supported version is 12.0. If you do not specify the version on the command-line, your script must request the scripting API directly with the package require -exact qsys < version > command.
--search-path=<value> Optional If you omit this command, a Platform Designer uses a standard default path. If you provide this command, Platform Designer searches a comma-separated list of paths. To include the standard path in your replacement, use "$", for example, /<directory path>/dir,$. Separate multiple directory references with a comma.
--quartus-project=<value> Optional Specifies the path to a .qpf Intel® Quartus® Prime project file. Utilizes the specified Intel® Quartus® Prime project to add the file saved using save_system command. If you omit this command, Platform Designer uses the default revision as the project name.
--new-quartus-project=<value> Optional Specifies the name of the new Intel® Quartus® Prime project. Creates a new Intel® Quartus® Prime project at the specified path and adds the file saved using save_system command to the project. If you omit this command, Platform Designer uses the Intel® Quartus® Prime project revision as the new Intel® Quartus® Prime project name.
--rev=<value> Optional Allows you to specify the name of the Intel® Quartus® Prime project revision.
--jvm-max-heap-size=<value> Optional The maximum memory size that the qsys-script tool uses. You specify this value as <size><unit>, where unit is m (or M) for multiples of megabytes, or g (or G) for multiples of gigabytes.
--help Optional Displays help for the qsys-script utility.