immortalin / altera-makefile

Allows commandline builds, and project creation for Altera's Quartus II

Altera Quartus II Makefile

This can be used to compile your altera projects on the commandline, i.e. without the GUI.

Directory Layout

As Quartus II will throw a lot of garbage into its project dir, a directory layout as follows was picked:

fpga/
nios/
quartus/

Your HDL code (and also the stuff that you might generate by using QSys) goes into fpga/. The quartus directory will contain all the stuff that gets generated by quartus.

Usage

In order to use this to build your project, drop all your HDL code into fpga. Edit quartus/Makefile to suit your needs, most interesting variables there should be:

• SRCS (your HDL code)
• PROJECT (your projects name?)
• TOP_LEVEL_ENTITY (your projects top level entity)
• FAMILY, PART and BOARDFILE (for pin assignments, and part selection)

Now you can create and build your project by:

user$: make -C quartus

In order to program the FPGA device use:

user$: make program

Known problems

• If you generated some components using QSys check the paths in the corresponding _hw.tcl file and make sure the _hw.tcl file is inside (for now ...) the quartus/ directory.