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This Tcl script will help you can to run Quartus II fitter seed sweep without the help of Design Space Explorer. Running fitter seeds sweeping without Design Space Explorer is always a pain in the ass. You have to manually change the seed number, run fitter, run STA and record down the Static Timing Analysis results for comparison later. And if you have 10 seeds to sweep, you will have to re do it again for nine more times. This is a Quartus II Tcl script that automates it.

This is a Quartus II Tcl script that will automate the fitter and TimeQuest Timing Analyzer automatically sequentially. By default in Quartus II, the tasks flow customization does not allow running fitter first without running elaboration and synthesis first. This is one of the pre-requisites Altera enforce on the tasks flow. Some times when optimizing a FPGA design by playing around the fitter settings, you will just need to rerun fitter and TimeQuest to get the timing analysis results of the fitter settings change. This script is intended to be use as the script file argument for the "quartus_sh" command line.

This is how you can customize the Quartus II tasks flow to only run fitter and TimeQuest Timing Analyzer without running elaboration and synthesis first. Without this, the tasks flow will not allow you to customize it this way. You have to run fitter manually and run TimeQuest manually after fitter had finish.