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WFH's avatar
WFH
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18 hours ago

Lisence issue when running .do script

Hello,

I am a beginner using the Questa FPGA starter edition for practicing SystemVerilog coding.

I downloaded the 2025.2 Version and obtained the fix lisence according to NIC ID (my PC's Ethernet adapter's MAC address). And I set accordingly the environment variable(LM_LICENSE_FILE and SALT_LICENSE_SERVER) pointing to the .dat file. The software Questa run successfully.

But when I want to use a .do script to run a simple SV simulation, the process failed and showed as attachment 1.

The programm is simple and I believe it has no advanced grammar (attachment 2 and 3), but it still failed.

Is that the limination of Starter Edition or problem about lisencing?

Thank you in advance.

 

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  • BCuze's avatar
    BCuze
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    10 hours ago

    How is your queue declared ?

    Be aware that if you want to use the SV randomization, you need an advanced version of Questa (to use the Solver) and neither Starter nor OEM Editions do have this. OTOMH that's what the svverification license feature is enabling. $urandom (Verilog) etc will work, but not the SV randomization methods.

    • WFH's avatar
      WFH
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      7 hours ago

      Hello,

      the declaration of the queues is like this:

      bit [7:0] loc [$];

      bit [7:0] golden[$];

      And I did not use any method like randomization but $urandomm just as showed in attachment 2 and 3.

      If I change the "program" to "module", the code runs. Is the Starter Edition unable to use the SV keywords like "program"?