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17 years ago

Dual port RAM in Quartus II 7.2, different behavior on ModelSim than Quartus simulato

I'm using the Quartus II template for a true Dual port RAM with single clock, when I simulate it in Quartus simulator the behavior is ok, and synthsised correctly to the memory bits in a Cyclone III ...
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17 years ago

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As vernmid said, ModelSim will use the .vho only if you tell it to...

If you are using the NativeLink interface between Quartus and ModelSim to run ModelSim from within Quartus, then Quartus might be telling ModelSim to compile the appropriate library for you.

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I believe NativeLink already tells ModelSim to use the netlist file when you select EDA gate-level simulation on Quartus. I don't think you have to do that manually.