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10 years ago

having problem when Simulating Nios II with Program Memory on External Flash & SSRAM

I was following the tutorial on

http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/Simulating_Nios_II_Designs_with_Program_Memory_on_External_Flash_and_SSRAM
for Simulating Nios II with Program Memory on External Flash & SSRAM.

Eventually Modelsim shows folloing Error while trying to load the simulation files:

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# ** Note: (vsim-3812) Design is being optimized...# ** Error: (vopt-7) Failed to open info file "work/_info" in read mode.# No such file or directory. (errno = ENOENT)# ** Error: ./..//niosii_system_tb/simulation/niosii_system_tb.v(103): Module 'niosii_system_tb_niosii_system_inst' is not defined.# ** Error: (vopt-7) Failed to open info file "work/_info" in read mode.# No such file or directory. (errno = ENOENT)# ** Error: ./..//niosii_system_tb/simulation/niosii_system_tb.v(121): Module 'niosii_system_tb_niosii_system_inst_led_pio_external_connection_bfm' is not defined.# ** Error: (vopt-7) Failed to open info file "work/_info" in read mode.# No such file or directory. (errno = ENOENT)# ** Error: ./..//niosii_system_tb/simulation/niosii_system_tb.v(125): Module 'niosii_system_tb_niosii_system_inst_button_pio_external_connection_bfm' is not defined.# ** Error: (vopt-7) Failed to open info file "work/_info" in read mode.# No such file or directory. (errno = ENOENT)# ** Error: ./..//niosii_system_tb/simulation/niosii_system_tb.v(150): Module 'niosii_system_tb_flash_ssram_tristate_bridge_bridge_0_tcb_translator' is not defined.# ** Error: (vopt-7) Failed to open info file "work/_info" in read mode.# No such file or directory. (errno = ENOENT)# ** Error: ./..//niosii_system_tb/simulation/niosii_system_tb.v(177): Module 'niosii_system_tb_flash_ssram_tristate_bridge_pinSharer_0_pin_divider' is not defined.# Optimization failed# Error loading design

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and then I tried not to use optimization in IDE for ECLIPSE and then tried again I got verbosity_pkg Error:

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# Top level modules:# altera_tristate_conduit_bridge_translator# Model Technology ModelSim ALTERA vlog 10.1e Compiler 2013.06 Jun 12 2013# -- Compiling module altera_conduit_bfm_0002# ** Fatal: Unexpected signal: 11.# ** Error: C:/Users/Administrator/Desktop/Nios2_External_Memory/niosii_system/testbench/niosii_system_tb/simulation/submodules/verbosity_pkg.sv(48): Verilog Compiler exiting# C:/altera/14.0/modelsim_ase/win32aloem/vlog failed.

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I added this line to my Modelsim TCL but didnt work again:

vlog -sv niosii_system_tb.v -L altera_common_sv_packages

Anyone had the same problem befor?

Thanks in advance.

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  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    Actually I solved it by using 32 bit Modelsim instead of 64 bit.

    But it is very very slow.

    Is there any faster way to simulate the big designs that wont fit inside the NIOS on-chip memory?