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An Altera Quartus II project consists of one *.qpf and one or more *.qsf files. The qsf seems to be a TCL script like other EDA related settings and config files (e.g. xdc, sdc, ...).

Is is possible to include other TCL scripts into the qsf?

I don't like the idea of storing all design settings in one file (source files, pin assignments, ...). Like in ISE or Vivado, I would like to store e.g. pin assignments in seperate files and included them.

Excurse ISE:

ISE uses UCF files to store constraints for pins, placement and timings. It's possible to add multiple ucf files to one project. E.g. a GPIO.LED.ucf or a Clock.SystemClock.ucf.

Excurse Vivado :

Vivado stores constraints in xdc files (Xilinx Design Constraints - a Xilinx extended version of SDC files - Synopsys Design Constraints). XDC/SDC files are TCL scripts. Quartus also uses SDC files.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Pin assignments can be in a separate TCL file. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Aug 13, 2015 at 0:12
  • \$\begingroup\$ @LeonHeller Yes, but how I include this file? \$\endgroup\$
    – Paebbels
    Commented Aug 14, 2015 at 2:02
  • \$\begingroup\$ Select Files in the Project Navigator and right click on Files. You can then add the TCL file. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Aug 14, 2015 at 9:04

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Tested with Quartus II 15.0

Its possible to add lines like these to the *.qsf file:

set LoadPinConstraints 1
source ../../constraints/DE4/GPIO.Button.Reset.sdc
source ../../constraints/DE4/GPIO.Buttons.sdc
source ../../constraints/DE4/GPIO.SlideSwitches.sdc
source ../../constraints/DE4/GPIO.LEDs.sdc

(These *.sdc files include pin assignments, I/O settings (voltage, standard, ...) and pin timings.)

But, Quartus will report a bad formatted *.qsf file with unsupported commands. After that, Quartus inlines all external pin assignments into the *.qsf file.

So yes it's possible, but the goal of modularization is gone.

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Try these commands in the qsf file - set_global_assignment -name PRE_FLOW_SCRIPT_FILE quartus_sh:script_file.tcl

For an example checkout this page - The example script file is in the zip archive on that page.

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In Quartus Prime ver. 18.1 it is possible to do:

set_global_assignment -name SOURCE_TCL_SCRIPT_FILE pinout.tcl
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