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10 years ago

Quartus Waveform simulator

All,

I have upgraded to Quartus Prime 16 Lite and have tried to recompile an old existing (simple) circuit that I used in Quartus II Web 9.0. It seems to compile fine but where did the simple Waveform Simulator go??????????

I had to upgrade to try to move an existing MAX-II design into a MAX-10, and Quartus 14 and higher support the MAX-10. I have installed 14 but it works that same as 16, hoping it wasn't too much of a change from 9.0 with the simulator function, but.... it was.

It was a simple 1-button <click> that tied the current schematic to a waveform simulator.

Now it starts ModelSim Altera Starter program that isn't embedded in the Quartus window.

Where's my waveform??

What happened to my .VWF files?

Why doesn't it load these files?

Do I have to setup these original sim waveform files.?

What happened to the simple 1-button (maybe 2-button) <click> function?

Being frustrated here.

Keith

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    Altera_Forum
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    10 years ago

    Hi Keith,

    The waveform simulator was discontinued a few versions of Quartus ago. I would suggest that you have a look at the ModelSim simulator. It looks a bit more complicated than the waveform simulator but once you get the hang of it you will not regret.

    Cheers

    Thiago
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    10 years ago

    Thiago,

    Thanks for the reply. Yeah.... I've started to slowly dig into it to try to get it to work with my old designs... I guess I don't like change.... but there again, I only do 1-2 designs every 3-5 yrs. so I can't keep up with the technology. Every time I do a new design, I have to learn most new things from the ground-up.

    Thanks again,

    Keith
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    10 years ago

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    Thiago,

    Thanks for the reply. Yeah.... I've started to slowly dig into it to try to get it to work with my old designs... I guess I don't like change.... but there again, I only do 1-2 designs every 3-5 yrs. so I can't keep up with the technology. Every time I do a new design, I have to learn most new things from the ground-up.

    Thanks again,

    Keith

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    Modelsim is hardly new (been around 15+ years) , and not going away anytime soon. If you can learn to use it, then you'll be able to do much more thorough tests on your design and because all simulators are basically the same you'll basically know how to use Cadence and ActiveHDL too.