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

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Date 10/02/2023
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2.5.3.3. Generating Board and Presets for Existing Systems Using Command Line

The command line method of applying board and presets to existing systems implements the same steps in a script that you can perform in the Platform Designer GUI. To apply board and preset files to an existing Platform Designer system using the command line, you must first create a Tcl script that performs the following:

  1. Loads the correct Platform Designer package version number with package require.
  2. Imports the pin assignments from the corresponding Intel® Quartus® Prime Setting file (.qsf) with load_pin_from_quartus_project.
  3. Saves the system to apply the pin assignment to the system with save_system.
  4. Exports the system or IP presets and board file with export_system_preset.

The following shows an example script that implements these steps:

package require -exact qsys <version number> 
load_pin_from_quartus_project 
save_system
export_system_preset test_preset.qprs 
export_board_file "<board name>" <filename_board.xml>
Note: The <version number> must be 22.4 or later.

The following command runs the example script:

$ qsys-script --script=export.tcl --quartus-project=[test_project] \
     --system-file=[test_system.qsys] 

The following example shows the content of export.tcl if there is one instance in a Platform Designer system in the project:

package require -exact qsys 22.4  
load_pin_from_quartus_project 
export_system_preset ip/presets 
export_board_file "My Board" test_board.xml

The following example shows the content of export.tcl if there is more than one instance in a Platform Designer system in the project:

package require -exact qsys 22.4 
set instance_paths [get_quartus_instance_path_for_entity] 

# select the correct Quartus instance path for your \
    Platform Designer system (e.g using the 1st path) 

set my_instance_path [lindex instance_paths 0] 
load_pin_from_quartus_project $my_instance_path 
export_system_preset ip/presets 
export_board_file "My Board" test_board.xml