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ocraM
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1 year ago
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How to know if questa is correctly installed in my linux system?

I installed quartus in my ubuntu 22.04 system by following this tutorial, so downloading the installer from here and executing the setup.sh script. Now I'm learning how to create testbenchs and I ...
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  • RichardT_altera's avatar
    RichardT_altera
    1 year ago

    Check the error message and see what it complain about.


    The "#Error error loading design" seems to indicate that the Questa is unable to find the design files.

    Check if the path to the file being loaded is incorrect, or the path contains a space character, or the file does not exist.


    Check the line 12 in the ...msim_gate_vhdl.do file and see what is it about.


    Do you run a full compilation in the Quartus prior to launch the Questa to run gate level simulation?


    Regards,

    Richard Tan


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ocraM
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1 year ago

On modelsim.tcl file I found something like:

            #First detect if correct version of tool is in the users path
            if [ catch {exec $vsim_cmd -version} version_str] {
                set emsg "Can't launch $tool Simulation software -- make sure the software is properly installed and the environment variable LM_LICENSE_FILE or MGLS_LICENSE_FILE points to the correct license file."
                nl_postmsg error "Error: $emsg"
                error "$emsg" "" "issued_nl_message"
            } else

Then after digging a bit:

marco@hivemind:~/intelFPGA_lite/23.1std$ export LM_LICENSE_FILE=/usr/local/flexlm/licenses/LR-209063_License.dat 
marco@hivemind:~/intelFPGA_lite/23.1std$ ./questa_fse/bin/vsim 
Unable to checkout a license. Make sure your license file environment variable (SALT_LICENSE_SERVER, MGLS_LICENSE_FILE, LM_LICENSE_FILE)
is set correctly and then run 'lmutil lmdiag' to diagnose the problem.
Unable to checkout a license.  Vsim is closing.
** Error: Invalid license environment. Application closing.

I will keep digging tomorrow