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Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
15 years agoI think everyone here would agree that anything larger than a "small" design requires a more advanced simulator (i.e. ModelSim). There is no doubt there. But why then does a small design have to suffer the same rigors of a larger design when it comes to simulation/verification. I happen to like the old internal simulator for easy and quick verification.
Furthermore, I have always enjoyed the duality of the process. Pounding out code is fine, but then "sneaking away" to play with a waveform editor broke the monotony up. As some have previously suggested, I am too completely satisfied if the waveform editor remained as the front end to ModelSim. Furthermore, if the Internal Simulator was to come back, I would remain happy if it was limited to only a functional simulation (I rarely used full timing simulation for such small designs anyhow).