Altera Quartus II Scripting - Manual (Page 93)

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quartus_sh
© July 2013 Altera Corporation Quartus II Scripting Reference Manual
--qinstall
Option to install Quartus II Device Archive (.qda) file(s). Quartus II Device Archive files can be
downloaded from www.altera.com.
Usage
quartus_sh --qinstall -qda <value>
Available options
-qda <value>
Specify the Quartus II Device Archive file to install. You can specify one or more -qda options.
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Examples:
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# Install stratixii.qda and hardcopyii.qda
quartus_sh --qinstall -qda stratixii.qda -qda hardcopyii.qda
--qslave
The Quartus Distributed Slave Utility
A utility to start the Distributed Master/Slave Toolkit's slave daemon on the slave host. The slave daemon
must be started on each slave host in order to listen for job requests from the master host.
VERSION
1.0
Synopsis
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Usage:
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quartus_sh --qslave [<port_number> <jobs_limit_number> <working_directory>]
Options [optional]:
port=<port_number> defaults to 1977
jobslimit=<jobs_limit_number> defaults to 1
workdir=<working_directory> defaults to current directory
Examples
quartus_sh --qslave
This command starts the Distributed Master/Slave Toolkit’s slave daemon in command-line mode.
quartus_sh --qslave port=1977
This command starts the Distributed Master/Slave Toolkit’s slave daemon to listen at port 1977.
quartus_sh --qslave jobslimit=1
This command starts the Distributed Master/Slave Toolkit’s slave daemon to listen by setting the jobs
limit to 1. This means the maximum number of jobs this slave host can accept is one. If this slave host
receives more than one job, the second job is rejected.
quartus_sh --qslave workdir="d:/slave"