Re: automatic firmware revision for VHDL

<dejfson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Dear Experts,
> i'd like to introduce to my design one register containing a firmware
> revision. Very probably the firmware revision would be a data when the
> VHDL code was checked out from the CVS repository where I store the
> project.
>
> The problem I encounter is how to translate the CVS last-commit data
> of the project currently checked out, and translate it into VHDL code
> to be a part of the project.
>
> Example:
>
> yesterday i committed at the end of day the whole project, thus when I
> check it out today and burn, one of the registers I ex****t should
> contain yesterday's date as a firmware revision
>
> i check out the project corresponding to a date 2 weeks ago, the
> firmware register should contain a number corresponding to date at
> which the version of the project I have checked out was committed.
>
> This would allow very easily match the firmware and CVS source
> together.....
>
> any ideas how to do it?
>
> thanks
> david

Can't you use the $Id$/$Revision$ string in your source file and translate

that to a date/version constant with a bit of Tcl?

This might help you a bit : 
http://www.ht-lab.com/freeutils/date2hdl/date2hdl.html

Hans
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