Altera Quartus II Scripting - Manual (Page 230)

3–100 Chapter 3: Tcl Packages & Commands
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Quartus II Scripting Reference Manual © July 2013 Altera Corporation
INCREMENTAL_COMPILATION_EXPORT_NETLIST_TYPE global assignment (which can either have
value POST_SYNTH or POST_FIT) determines whether post-synthesis or post-fitting results should be
exported. Finally, the value of the INCREMENTAL_COMPILATION_EXPORT_ROUTING global
assignment specifies whether routing should be exported when a post-fit netlist is generated.
The "-incremental_compilation_import" option uses the following partition assignments to determine the
location of the QXP files, and how importation should be performed, on a per-partition basis:
PARTITION_IMPORT_FILE PARTITION_IMPORT_PROMOTE_ASSIGNMENTS
PARTITION_IMPORT_NEW_ASSIGNMENTS PARTITION_IMPORT_EXISTING_ASSIGNMENTS
PARTITION_IMPORT_EXISTING_LOGICLOCK_REGIONS
The "-vqm_writer" option uses the value of the LOGICLOCK_INCREMENTAL_COMPILE_FILE
assignment for the VQM output directory, defaulting to "atom_netlists".
All assignments are exported first automatically, as if you called the "export_assignments" command first,
unless the -dont_export_assignments option is specified.
You must use the Tcl command "catch" to determine whether the predefined flow ran successfully or not,
as in the following example:
if {[catch {execute_flow -compile} result]} {
puts "\nResult: $result\n"
puts "ERROR: Compilation failed. See report files.\n"
} else {
puts "\nINFO: Compilation was successful.\n"
}
Example
# To run quartus_map, quartus_fit, quartus_tan, quartus_asm
# or other executables based on options. (Refer to "Using
# Compilation Flows," "Compiling Designs," and "Specifying
# Compiler Settings" in Quartus(R) II online Help for more
# information.)
execute_flow -compile
# To determine if compilation was successful or not
# and print out a personalized message.
if {[catch {execute_flow -compile} result]} {
puts "\nResult: $result\n"
puts "ERROR: Compilation failed. See report files.\n"
} else {
puts "\nINFO: Compilation was successful.\n"
}
# To perform a full compilation followed by a simulation
execute_flow -compile_and_simulate