Modelsim Starter Edition Usage Terms

If you read in the document below:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/software/programmable/quartus-prime/model-sim.html

The performance should become slow rather than error. If you see error, you can report this here as bugs.

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Each vendors will have their own libraries when simulating the design.

If you refer to the document, what you will notice is that vsim -L altera_mf -L cycloneIV....

Those are the libraries that you need take care when migrating the design from xilinx and other vendors.

You are right, there are no license needed to use the libraries. Start edition of Modelsim does not need to pay as well.

However, if you want to use Intel FPGA IP(e.g. ethernet, tranceiver) you will have to pay for the license. https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/po/ss-quartus-comparison.pdf

Yes, like I mention before, if you want to use Xilinx design in Quartus. You first need to do migration before you can do any simulation, you can look into the document here on how to do the migration: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/an/an307.pdf

Look for area:

3. FPGA Tools Comparison 4. Xilinx to Intel FPGA Design Conversion

After that, you can just launch the modelsim mention in

3.3.12. Simulation

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