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2 years ago
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Simulating 2 different devices in a single testbench

Hello, My system involves 2 FPGAs communication over a Serial Lite III interface in duplex configuration. The devices are as follows: 1. Arria 10 - project is implemented using Quartus 23.2 2. St...
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    ShengN_altera
    2 years ago

    Hi,


    Seems like some IPs are only available for Stratix 10. If that's the case you may skip steps 3 and 4, straight away go to step 5 manually compare, modify and merge the files mentor/msim_setup.tcl, common/modelsim_files.tcl and common/ncsim_files.tcl between Arria 10 project and Stratix 10 project.


    Thanks,

    Regards,

    Sheng


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ShengN_altera
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2 years ago

Hi,


I had done trying and found out the following steps (have to manually modify and merge the simulation tcl scripts):

1.Create a new folder duplicate of for example Arria 10 project.

2.In newly created Arria 10 project GUI, copy and include the Stratix 10 project design files, .qsys and .ip related files and folders.

3.Perform ip upgradation, full compilation and go to Tools -> Generate Simulator Setup Script for IP (combined)

4.Again in newly created Arria 10 project, copy the old Stratix 10 project .qsys, .ip related files and folders to replace the previously copied, upgraded Stratix 10 project .qsys and .ip related files/folders. This time don't perform ip upgradation.

5.Between the newly created Arria 10 project and old Stratix 10 project, compare, modify and merge the files mentor/msim_setup.tcl, common/modelsim_files.tcl and common/ncsim_files.tcl

6.Lastly, source necessary's files in simulation script file and run simulation.


Thanks,

Best Regards,

Sheng