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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

Thanks for the help and I apologise for the late reply.

I have been able to solve most of the testbench problems althought I'm not exactly sure where the problem was. It was definitely not in the questa installation anymore though, because questa is working fine now.

I had to remake the whole project from scratch, which is not a problem since it was mostly in the beginning.
Then added the testbench file and compiled. Now it shows my signals as desired