I am also facing the same problem with Quartus 12.0 sp1.
For the ip generated through megawizard for verilog, I ran vsim in the <ep>_sim/mentor directory
source msim_setup.tcl in vsim
ld_debug
and I see simulation exiting with errors like
instantiation of stratixiv_hssi_gen3_tx_pcs_encrypted failed. The design unit was not found.
where can find this module?
Alternately, I generated vhdl version of the PCIe core gen 3 and executing the same command ld_debug yielded this error.
Fatal error in a protected context.
Time 0 ps Iteration Protected: /ep_g3_x8_avl_256_a_s5_inst/<protected> File: nofile
FATAL ERROR while loading design
Any ideas/solutions about VHDL simulation failure would be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Fasahat