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17 years ago

Using TCL Scripts to Simulate Quartus Design

Hello, I've been using the built in simulator within Quartus for many years, but now I'm getting more interested in ModelSim. I've seen some Quartus projects that use TCL scripts in ModelSim that wil...
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17 years ago

Typically the TCL scripts are used to launch the ModelSim tools and set up things, then they launch a ModelSim ".do" file. 'do files are exactly as they are named, the tell the tool to "do" stuff. That can be the same stuff that you would type if you were running the tools from the command prompt. - Open windows, add signals to the display, even run other .do files. so you can sort of build up collections of things that you would like to "do".

I suspect that you can learn most of this in the free online tcl training, as well as the ModelSim training courses on the web.

Good luck.