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18 years ago

Loading file from working folder

Hi guys, I am currently using the Altera UP2 Educational Kit to perform convolution on images. I was hoping to write a program which allow my board to load a binary file (.bin) from my current...
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18 years ago

Hello,

I also understand that you tried to use VHDL file I/O with Quartus simulator. Quartus simulator can be used only with vector waveform stimulus, VHDL testbenches including textio package functions are possible e. g. with ModelSim. It could be that some simulators support binary files, but the general practice is to use tabular text files, cause they are portable. If you already converted your stimulus data, you can use text files as well.

Regards,

Frank