Honored ContributorAltera seems to have eliminated their "Archive Downloads" so my students can't find version 9.1 sp2 to get the Vector Waveform File (.vwf) capability. This was a great entry-level simulator only available prior to version 10.0.
Does anyone know where we can find the downloadable Quartus version 9.1?
Honored ContributorMostly use of latest versions of the tools is recommended. How about using ModelSim-Altera free version and generating (not writing... just need little additions to it) test benches within Quartus... for simulation..
I know what you are saying ... I also started from the same but at the end for most of the real life industrial designs we have to go for it, so why not from the beginning focusing to the standard procedure.. where ModelSim-Altera is much better than the other one. Regards-Honored Contributorthe wave editor has been added to the imminent Quartus release
Honored ContributorWhen you say "imminent Quartus release ", I am running the new Quartus II version 11.1 WebEdition and I don't see the ability to create Vector waveform files.
Also, the ability to download "Archive Quartus Versions " has been removed from the Altera site.Honored ContributorFor Universities (and people with very simple simulation needs), see here (http://www.altera.com/education/univ/software/qsim/unv-qsim.html) for a stand-alone version of the old simulator.
Honored Contributorsorry for the misunderstanding, i was thinking of the wave editor davka pointed out
Honored ContributorI've installed Quartus version 11.1 and the university programs Qsim. Built a new project, compiled it, etc. When I run Qsim it says Simulation Sucessful, then fires up Quartus in the background. Quartus says "read only file" (which the instructions say I can ignore.) then a quartusII error pops up that reads":
*** Fatal Error: Access Violation at 0X651449A4 Module: qwedt.exe Stack Trace: 0x1449a3: QPrinter::setDocName + 0x23 (QtGui4) 0x53813: QString::fromLatin1_helper + 0x63 (QtCore4) 0x2720f: QUI_FRAME_WND::set_window_title + 0x59f (SYS_QUI) 0x70fc9: QUI_FRAME_WND::open_file + 0x89 (SYS_QUI) 0x3543: MEM_SEGMENT_INTERNAL::locked_allocate + 0x83 (ccl_mem) 0x3873: MEM_SEGMENT_INTERNAL::allocate + 0x43 (ccl_mem) 0x378e: mem_new_wrapper + 0x5e (ccl_mem) 0x6fff2: QUI_APP::init_instance + 0x3d2 (SYS_QUI) 0x1c51: msg_main_thread + 0x11 (CCL_MSG) 0x1be8: _thr_final_wrapper + 0x8 (ccl_thr) 0x1bc5: msg_thread_wrapper + 0x85 (CCL_MSG) 0x443a: mem_thread_wrapper + 0x4a (ccl_mem) 0x2b5d1: msg_exe_main + 0x81 (CCL_MSG) 0x17076: RegisterWaitForInputIdle + 0x48 (kernel32) End-trace Quartus II 32-bit Version 11.1 Build 173 11/01/2011 SJ Web Edition any Ideas?Honored ContributorSorry, I found the problem, I need to run Qsim on a computer for which I have administative rights. (It works fine on my home computer.)
So, back to my original issue: it's too bad that vwf creation and waveform simulation has been eliminated. Instead I will have my intro digital students use QSim. FYI: I have created several youtube podcasts on using Quartus and VHDL at: http://www.youtube.com/user/billkleitz#g/c/7bdc4877ac756557Honored Contributor
