Quartus® Prime Pro Edition User Guide: Platform Designer

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Date 9/30/2024
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1.20.1. Saving Platform Designer Systems

Platform Designer prompts you to save any changes to your system before generating or closing. You can use any of the following methods to save your Platform Designer system:
  • To save a Platform Designer system, click File > Save in Platform Designer.
  • To save a Platform Designer system as a Tcl script, click File > Export System as Platform Designer script.
  • To save (export) a generated Platform Designer system as a Tcl script at the command-line, run the qsys-generate command as follows:
    qsys-generate <top-level-qsys-file> --quartus-project=<value> --export-qsys-script

    For export-qsys-script option details, refer to qsys-generate Command-Line Options.

Note: The generated Tcl scripts also include any pin constraints that you set by applying presets to a Platform Designer system.
Figure 97. Saving A Platform Designer System
Restore this system by executing the .tcl file from the System Scripting tab, or with the qsys-script command.
Note: Restoring with qsys-script generates default project (.qpf) and settings (.qsf) files that contain only basic information. The .qsf includes no project-specific assignments from the original project's .qsf. You can click File > Select Quartus Project in Platform Designer to associate a system with any Quartus® Prime project.