The component Builder in Quartus 6.0 will not accept include files, so you have to use Quartus to synthesize the source code into a single .vqm file, then rename this as a .v file, and then import this using component Builder. There is a make file in this directory that can called from cygwin and used to copy the RTL source to sopcCompProj/src From cygwin make Open Quartus project 'usbHostSlaveAvalonWrap.qpf' Processing >> Start >> Start Analysis and Synthesis Processing >> Start >> Start VQM Writer Copy sopcCompProj/atom_net_list/usbHostSlaveAvalonWrap.vqm to sopcCompProj/usbhostslaveavalonwrap/hdl/usbHostSlaveAvalonWrap.v Copy sopcCompProj/usbhostslaveavalonwrap directory to the Quartus project directory where you wish to use the new component