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18 years ago

vhdl package not recognised

hi, basically i am trying to do post-synthesis testing on my vhdl code, i have already written a testbench and used it with modelsim (non altera version) to do functional testing. however now ...
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18 years ago

thank you very much, i tried adding the package to the testbench files and it worked, however i now have a different problem, modelsim comes up with this

# ** Warning: (vopt-1946) state_machine_vhd.sdo(145): Can't resolve SDF pathname "asynch_inst" - instance not found.

# ** Warning: (vopt-1946) state_machine_vhd.sdo(39): Can't resolve SDF pathname "asynch_inst" - instance not found.

# ** Warning: (vopt-1946) state_machine_vhd.sdo(57): Can't resolve SDF pathname "extena0_reg" - instance not found.

# ** Warning: (vopt-1946) state_machine_vhd.sdo(155): Can't resolve SDF pathname "asynch_inst" - instance not found.

# ** Warning: (vopt-1946) state_machine_vhd.sdo(72): Can't resolve SDF pathname "asynch_inst" - instance not found.

and

# ** Error: (vsim-SDF-3250) state_machine_vhd.sdo(35): Failed to find INSTANCE '/main_test/\clk~I\/asynch_inst'.

# ** Error: (vsim-SDF-3250) state_machine_vhd.sdo(44): Failed to find INSTANCE '/main_test/\clk~clkctrl\'.

# ** Error: (vsim-SDF-3250) state_machine_vhd.sdo(53): Failed to find INSTANCE '/main_test/\clk~clkctrl\/extena0_reg'.

# ** Error: (vsim-SDF-3250) state_machine_vhd.sdo(68): Failed to find INSTANCE '/main_test/\req~I\/asynch_inst'.

# ** Error: (vsim-SDF-3250) state_machine_vhd.sdo(77): Failed to find INSTANCE '/main_test/\req1~feeder\'.

# ** Warning: (vsim-SDF-3432) state_machine_vhd.sdo: This file is probably applied to the wrong instance.

# Ignoring subsequent missing instances from this file.

# ** Warning: (vsim-SDF-3440) state_machine_vhd.sdo: Failed to find any of the 11 instances from this file.

# ** Warning: (vsim-SDF-3442) state_machine_vhd.sdo: Try instance '/main_test/dut'. It contains all instance paths from this file.

what could be causing these errors ?

thank you again for the help