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Sijith
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2 years ago
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How to simulate a design created in Platform Designer System

As I am comparatively new to Quartus Prime, I would like to know how to simulate my design that is created using Platform Designer System. I would like to elaborate a bit: my counter.v module is co...
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    ShengN_altera
    2 years ago

    Hi,

    The testbench counter_fifo_tb.v that I sent to you before is just an example. If you want to get proper output waveform, you have to change a bit on the stimulus.

    Below attached the edited testbench and proper output waveform image. As for the functionality, probably you still need to further verify from your side.

    Thanks,

    Best Regards,

    Sheng

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ShengN_altera
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2 years ago

Hi,

1) Setting counter_fifo.qsys file as top-level entity should be enough. ../Counter_FIFO/counter_fifo/sim and ../Counter_FIFO/counter_fifo/synth contain the same auto-generated .sv file so I think you can treat that .sv file in ../Counter_FIFO/counter_fifo/sim as top-level module. The Top-level HDL file of the design had been auto-generated.

2) Yup, .sv file in Project Folder/Qsys_system_name/synth will have the similar role of PLL_RAM.v in the example design. But since you're going to run simulation, have to use the .sv file in Project Folder/Qsys_system_name/sim.

Attached the zip file below. Check the do file sim.do in ../Counter_FIFO/counter_fifo/sim/mentor and example testbench counter_fifo_tb.v in ../Counter_FIFO/counter_fifo/sim. In do file, need to source the setup script msim_setup.tcl in sim/mentor then vlog both the top-level module counter_fifo.sv and example testbench counter_fifo_tb.v. Run the macro do file, you'll get the waveform like the picture attached below.

Thanks,

Best Regards,

Sheng

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