Re: automatic firmware revision for VHDL

On May 26, 4:22 pm, "dejf...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <dejf...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> thanks for reply. In fact I've solved the problem in a very similar
> way. Before every compilation I run small TCL script which creates a
> single entity having only one 32bit output std_logic_vector. This
> vector is fed by output of 'clock seconds' command of TCL. This gives
> you exact time of compilation, however it does not give you the date
> of last commit into CVS. Thus the time information I get is
> approximative.

If you can get the timestamp data into an integer or vector format
externally, you can pass it in to the top level entity via a generic.
Most compilers/synthesizers have command line options to specify
values of top level generics.

Andy