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14 years agoModelSim Altera SDF problem
Hi!
I'm a beginner to the world of Simualtion:) I have a prblem with my ModelSim-Altera 6.6d (Quartus II 11.0sp1) Starter Edition: I compiled a project in ModelSim-Altera successfuly and my design i want to simulate is designed for a cycloneii FPGA. My project in ModelSim-Altera contains a .vo file and a top.v as a testbench. After compiling i click on simulate->start simulation... when the windows pops up, I select my top.v design (I had to add the cycloneii library, otherwise it gives me a long list of errors) then i do [OK]. The Transcript window shows an error now:# Compile of DE1_Default.vo was successful.# Compile of top.v was successful.# 2 compiles, 0 failed with no errors.
vsim -L C:/altera/11.0sp1/modelsim_ase/altera/verilog/cycloneii work.punchARM# vsim -L C:/altera/11.0sp1/modelsim_ase/altera/verilog/cycloneii work.punchARM # Loading work.punchARM# Loading work.pancham# Loading C:/altera/11.0sp1/modelsim_ase/altera/verilog/cycloneii.cycloneii_lcell_comb# Loading C:/altera/11.0sp1/modelsim_ase/altera/verilog/cycloneii.cycloneii_lcell_ff# Loading C:/altera/11.0sp1/modelsim_ase/altera/verilog/cycloneii.cycloneii_io# Loading C:/altera/11.0sp1/modelsim_ase/altera/verilog/cycloneii.cycloneii_mux21# Loading C:/altera/11.0sp1/modelsim_ase/altera/verilog/cycloneii.cycloneii_dffe# Loading C:/altera/11.0sp1/modelsim_ase/altera/verilog/cycloneii.cycloneii_asynch_io# Loading C:/altera/11.0sp1/modelsim_ase/altera/verilog/cycloneii.cycloneii_clkctrl# Loading C:/altera/11.0sp1/modelsim_ase/altera/verilog/cycloneii.cycloneii_mux41# Loading C:/altera/11.0sp1/modelsim_ase/altera/verilog/cycloneii.cycloneii_ena_reg# ** Error: (vsim-SDF-3894) DE1_Default_v.sdo: Compiled SDF file was not found.# Loading C:/altera/11.0sp1/modelsim_ase/altera/verilog/cycloneii.CYCLONEII_PRIM_DFFE# ** Error: (vsim-7) Failed to open SDF file "DE1_Default_v.sdo" in read mode.# No such file or directory. (errno = ENOENT)# ** Error: (vsim-SDF-3445) Failed to parse SDF file "DE1_Default_v.sdo".# Time: 0 ps Iteration: 0 Region: /punchARM File: C:/FPGA/punchARM/testbench/top.v# Error loading design
(DE1_Default is the project name) What did I do wrong? I also added my testbench (top.v) in quartusii simulation settings, where i selected "compile test bench". Please can you help me and remember that I'm a beginner!