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Hey guys,
I just wanted to say thanks to both you and that is exactly what I needed it for Tricky I am learning circuit design. But what I have been getting confused is, I thought Altera was like Multisim by EWB, and I could actually see the actual components in action. I guess I am learning the hard way that is not the case huh. The only thing I am getting out of this is a signal trace or should I be seeing something else?
Lew
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It's a bit different, in Multisim you build up circuits in schematics and simulate everything in the same program. It's really a GUI frontend for SPICE models of various components. In the end you would still need to take what you designed in Multisim and translated it into physical circuits.
Quartus II is a compiler amongst other things and to see your logic operate you need to simulate it. The compiled logic can be downloaded into a "blank" FPGA and it will behave as whatever you programmed it with. So once your logic is designed you would create a testbench with stimulus to see how the logic behaves. The reason for this is it's pretty difficult to get a good idea how everything is working at any given time using just trace alone. The typical design flow is like this:
Design logic --> Compile logic in Quartus/Test logic using a simulation --> Fix bugs --> Compile...... etc...
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