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16 years ago

Simulation tool for Arria II GX?

Hi all, I am kinda new to Altera, FPGAs, Quartus etc... . Arria II GX is not supported by the Quartus Simulator. Are there any other tools to simulate the Arria II GX in a similar way? And wh...
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16 years ago

ModelSim-Altera Starter Edition is a free alternative, but you will need to learn a bit about an HDL to put it all together. what you can do is convert your .vwf into a Verilog or VHDL test bench, and also convert any .bdf files into HDL files, and then you can use ModelSim-ASE. for a beginner using the NativeLink simulation support can be helpful:

http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/qts/qts_qii53001.pdf