Forum Discussion

Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
13 years ago

NIOS II SOC Simulation with altera_avalon_mm_master_bfm

I have designed an SOC with NIOS II using QSYS. The design works in HW with SW running. Now, I want to simulate the SOC using the altera_avalon_mm_master_bfm. What I am not clear about is, do I ...
Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
13 years ago

Thanks Dave ! This was very helpful. I adapted this method to my NIOS based SOC and I was able to stimulate the Avalon bus with the Avalon Master BFM and it works great. I confirmed that you can leave the BFM in for systhesis. To get around the NIOS interference I simply kept it in reset by connecting the .reset_n (1'b0), (in

the simulation copy of the top-level). I used the QSYS generated testbench with all the generated external BFMs and simply added my own test_case_1.sv to it

and to the msim_setup.tcl

Shvitzer