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Altera_Forum
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17 years agoThere is no such thing as "normal execution time" for a testbench.
It depends of course on your simulation system (P3 800 MHz has other Perfomance than a P4 3GHz). Further on the complexity of your design, next point is the average switching frequency for your design, as a simulator needs to calculate every signal switching. Another point is the testbench itself. You could programm fast testbenches or slow testbenches. A testbench using only sequential signalassignments an wait statements will be quite faster than a testbench, that calculates the stimuli and waittimes or reads them from external stimuli files.