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13 years ago

Creating a waveform in Modelsim

Hi,

I'm attempting to use Modelsim for the first time.

I'm following the tutorial 'Introduction to Simulation of VHDL Designs Using ModelSim Graphical Waveform Editor' by Altera found at - ftp://ftp.altera.com/up/pub/altera_material/11.1/tutorials/vhdl/modelsim_gui_introduction.pdf

Everything seems to work okay up to the point of creating the waveform on the Wave window. When i right click on an object, the 'Create Wave' option doesn't appear, as shown in the screenshot i've taken of what i see - http://s9.postimage.org/l0gv5hptb/modelsim.jpg.

I assumed that they might have changed the 'Create Wave' option to 'Add Wave' but when i click this the 'Create Waveform Wizard' doesn't appear either. The object appears in the Wave window but the only waveform i'm able to produce is a clock. As i can't find a option to open the waveform wizard and it doesn't allow me to modify the clock waveform, as shown in this screen shot i've taken of what it shows in the Wave window - http://s1.postimage.org/8xs2pr5nj/modelsim_2.jpg

I feel like i'm missing something fundamental or i haven't setup my Modelsim quite right.

I'm using Quartus II V12.1 with Modelsim-Altera Starter edition V10.1b on a Windows 7 machine.

Any help is very very appreciated.

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    The latest tutorial to "not work" is a simple one

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    Rather than attempt to use a non-working example, I'd recommend taking a look at the examples I've provided in the links back at the start of this thread.

    Using the waveform editor to create stimulus is a bad idea. The technique is useful in a very limited number of situations, and even then, since you can write HDL code to create the waveforms, I'd argue that its never useful.

    Cheers,

    Dave