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ocraM
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1 year ago
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Simulation yielding different results when changing top-level entity

Hi, I'm sorry if the question is silly but I'm new to quartus. I have a project called HACK (an attempt to create Nand2Tetris' project in an actual FPGA board). It has the following pertinent file...
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    sstrell
    1 year ago

    HACK.vhd is not a testbench. All it does is instantiate halfAdder. It doesn't provide any stimulus to halfAdder so you won't see anything in a simulation.

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1 year ago

HACK.vhd is not a testbench. All it does is instantiate halfAdder. It doesn't provide any stimulus to halfAdder so you won't see anything in a simulation.

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    ocraM
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    1 year ago

    I see, I thought that testbenches were supposed to be always compiled and instantiated, but it seems that is not the case.
    After you pointed me to the right direction i researched a bit and it seems the common practice is to simply define the desired testbench as a top-level entity when you want it to compile and run(?)

    Thanks for the help