Modelsim linux how to#

You can google online for more thorough, more advanced tutorials. Reading documentations will help you access the more powerful debugging and simulation features. This tutorial should have set you up for the most minimum of functionalities to run a basic Verilog simulation project. Most of this you will have to discover for yourself. ModelSim has a great GUI with which to debug the design. Most likely, you'll run into bugs and need to muck around with the waveform viewer and debugger.

In fact, if this is all you do, you can just type. You can start the simulation by typing in the simulator command window. In an X-ready environment, this should bring up the simulator main window. It is a good practice to also look for WARN messages and resolve those as well. If the compilation failed with ERR messages, you will need to revise your. If there were no errors, the compilation should list the modules compiled and point out the top level modules ones not included by any other modules. If you delete this directory, you will need to create it again before running any compilations. This creates a directory called work needed by Modelsim. In your working directory where the simulation project. If you messsed up on the second command, vsim will not run in the steps below. If you messed up on the first command, which vsim will report there is no vsim in your path.

Modelsim linux how to#

If you are familiar with the Unix shell environment, you can figure out how to properly add the above to your. The above should work regardless of how your environment is initially set up. If you are running a different shell, I assume you know enough to adapt the instructions to your favorite shell. If you are not running bash, you can type bash into the command prompt to start a bash shell. This assumes you are running bash on an ECE Linux machine.