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Njoroge
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4 months ago

Simulation Examples

Are there any project examples that actually incorporate and show simulation? Take the "hello world" example, is there any walkthrough of a simulation using the available simulation resources like the eda simlib and the simulation softwares from Altera and other vendors?

It's all nice that I can use platform designer to put together a project but verification begins with simulation and there is little to no examples of that. Obviously there's manuals to read but I argue that relatively simple pure-rtl and IP-based designs should have simulations to accompany them because those are usually the projects to on-board beginners. It would really encapsulate nearly all of the design process for a beginner having an example project video/document showing design from platform designer to the RISC-free IDE to simulation/verification and then to programming. I am sorry if there's already some out there which I haven't come across due to not doing a thorough search.

If anyone could point me to such simulation-specific resources, I would be grateful. I would also have this as a suggestion for a video/series on the training platform.

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      Njoroge
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      4 months ago

      I checked it out, thank you. Still, I'd implore the community, I myself included, to include simulations and their detailed explanations in our example projects as much as we can. Deploying designs physically is still the end goal but the simulation/verification skills are increasingly crucial and the software provided to do this would best be trained for and used. I also think that this would continue to lessen the complexities facing beginners getting into FPGA design.

      Thank you.