General

The General section lists general user options. You can see and change these options in the quartus2.ini file with two Tcl commands, set_user_option and get_user_option under the project package.

The following table shows the General section variable names and values:

Variable Name Values
AUTO_RECOMPILE_BEFORE_SIM 1 | 0 (On | Off)
AUTO_RECOMPILE_BEFORE_SWBUILD 1 | 0 (On | Off)
COMPACT_REPORT_TABLE_FORMAT 0 | 1 (Off | On)
DELAY_QSF_UPDATES 1 | 0 (On | Off)
DESIGN_ASSISTANT_CUSTOM_RULE_FILE <location>/<file_name>
GENERATE_EQUATION_FILES 1 | 0 (On | Off)
GENERATE_HTML_REPORT_FILES 1 | 0 (On | Off)
GENERATE_SINGLE_REPORT_FILE 1 | 0 (On | Off)
HDL PREFERENCE VHDL | Verilog | AHDL
LICENSE_FILE <location>/<file_name>
READ_WRITE_HEX_FILES_TO_WORD_BOUNDARY 1 | 0 (On | Off)
RUN_PROCESS_AT_LOWER_PRIORITY 1 | 0 (On | Off)
USER_LIBRARIES <location>/<file_name>
NUM_PARALLEL_PROCESSORS <number of processors> | All
USE_64BIT (On | Off)
SOUND_WHEN_PROCESS_DONE 1 | 0 (On | Off)