Confusing with functional simulation

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OK, generally I would do the same. But how does that get us any closer to answering the original inquiry?

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The OPs problems are not clear, and probably steam from lack of proper address generation. The Quartus simulator isnt very flexible when it comes to stimulus generation, along with the fact most users of the forum (myself included) dont use it, hence using a testbench would be much easier.