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Fabrizio_Salerno
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1 year ago

ModelSim Exit code 211 with CycloneV Fractional PLL

Hello, I'm trying to simulate on ModelSim Intel-FPGA Started Edition 10.5b a design that was compiled on Quartus Prime 18.1 on the CycloneV. The design compiles correctly, and the EDA netlist Writer...
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RichardT_altera
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1 year ago

Could you try to run the simulation using the Nativelink simulation flow?

Additionally, could you try using Questa Intel FPGA edition (starter/non starter) as Modelsim has been replaced by it.

If the issue still persists, could you share the project and testbench so I could try to duplicate the issue and find a solution.


Regards,

Richard Tan


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1 year ago

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the reply.

I have attempted to run the same project on Questa Intel FPGA started edition 2023.3 for the Quartus 2023.1 without success (I get error message

"Error $MODEL_TECH/../intel/vhdl/src/cyclonev/mentor/cyclonev_atoms_ncrypt.v(38): in protected region" which means the command vsim name does not work.

I think I tried the simulation flow you've asked without any success.

I'll attach a very simple project which seems to give me these issues (it's a simple PLL with 3 output clocks). The problematic file is in Simple_PLL/simulation/modelsim/e_Simple_PLL.vho, in particular the entity mapped in line 261 is the one that makes Modelsim crash.