How to run tool in parallel to design compilation?

[Stefan]

Hi there,

I want to run a script/tool in parallel to Quartus compilation run. How can I do this?

I tried this:

project.qsf

set_global_assignment -name PRE_FLOW_SCRIPT_FILE "quartus_sh:script_files/build_pre_flow.tcl"

script_files/build_pre_flow.tcl

exec [info nameofexecutable] -t [pwd]/script_files/temp/run_forever.tcl &

script_files/temp/run_forever.tcl

while 1 { after 1000 }

Output on compilation:

Info: ******************************************************************* Info: Running Quartus Prime Shell Info: Command: quartus_sh -t script_files/build_pre_flow.tcl compile project revision Info: Quartus(args): compile project revision Info (23030): Evaluation of Tcl script script_files/build_pre_flow.tcl was successful Info: Quartus Prime Shell was successful. 0 errors, 0 warnings

... but now he stops here with compilation time clock still running, and progress staying at 0 % - why?

Seems like (despite message say that script was successful) still checks if script spawned another process and he won't continue until that process stops. If I kill that process, compilation starts - but that's not what I want, I want to have that running during compilation. How can I do that?

Thanks in advance

[Kenny_Tan]

Hi,

You need to rewrite your code to control the compilation stages. I will give you an example here how you do it:

set dirs ""

lappend dirs "<Project directory>"

lappend dirs "<Project directory>"

foreach dir $dirs {

puts $dir

  catch {cd $dir}

set project_name [glob *.qpf]

project_open $project_name

Source build_pre_flow.tcl

execute_flow -compile // you can break the stage here if you want. e.g. execute_module -tool fit, execute_module -tool syn, execute_module -tool sta

project_close 

lappend report "[format "%-15s %-30s %-20s" $dir $project_name DONE]"

}

foreach line $report {

puts $line

}

[Stefan]

Hi KTan_Intel, thanks for your reply!

I'm sorry, I can't find that file you mentioned (without filename) - I searched my project for parts of it and I wasn't successful. Where is this script located at?

In the end, I want to be able to press [Ctrl]-[L] (as usual) and have mentioned functionality too.

[Kenny_Tan]

You can save the above code to a abc.tcl

Run it with quartus_sh -t abc.tcl

Make sure the quartus_sh is under quartus directory.