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Quartus missing archives for vwf simulation

Altera_Forum
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Altera seems to have eliminated their "Archive Downloads" so my students can't find version 9.1 sp2 to get the Vector Waveform File (.vwf) capability. This was a great entry-level simulator only available prior to version 10.0. 

Does anyone know where we can find the downloadable Quartus version 9.1?
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Altera_Forum
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Mostly use of latest versions of the tools is recommended. How about using ModelSim-Altera free version and generating (not writing... just need little additions to it) test benches within Quartus... for simulation..  

I know what you are saying ... I also started from the same but at the end for most of the real life industrial designs we have to go for it, so why not from the beginning focusing to the standard procedure.. where ModelSim-Altera is much better than the other one. 

 

Regards-
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Altera_Forum
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the wave editor has been added to the imminent Quartus release

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When you say "imminent Quartus release ", I am running the new Quartus II version 11.1 WebEdition and I don't see the ability to create Vector waveform files.  

Also, the ability to download "Archive Quartus Versions " has been removed from the Altera site.
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For Universities (and people with very simple simulation needs), see here (http://www.altera.com/education/univ/software/qsim/unv-qsim.html) for a stand-alone version of the old simulator.

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Altera_Forum
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sorry for the misunderstanding, i was thinking of the wave editor davka pointed out

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I've installed Quartus version 11.1 and the university programs Qsim. Built a new project, compiled it, etc. When I run Qsim it says Simulation Sucessful, then fires up Quartus in the background. Quartus says "read only file" (which the instructions say I can ignore.) then a quartusII error pops up that reads": 

 

*** Fatal Error: Access Violation at 0X651449A4 

Module: qwedt.exe 

Stack Trace: 

0x1449a3: QPrinter::setDocName + 0x23 (QtGui4) 

0x53813: QString::fromLatin1_helper + 0x63 (QtCore4) 

0x2720f: QUI_FRAME_WND::set_window_title + 0x59f (SYS_QUI) 

0x70fc9: QUI_FRAME_WND::open_file + 0x89 (SYS_QUI) 

0x3543: MEM_SEGMENT_INTERNAL::locked_allocate + 0x83 (ccl_mem) 

0x3873: MEM_SEGMENT_INTERNAL::allocate + 0x43 (ccl_mem) 

0x378e: mem_new_wrapper + 0x5e (ccl_mem) 

 

0x6fff2: QUI_APP::init_instance + 0x3d2 (SYS_QUI) 

0x1c51: msg_main_thread + 0x11 (CCL_MSG) 

0x1be8: _thr_final_wrapper + 0x8 (ccl_thr) 

0x1bc5: msg_thread_wrapper + 0x85 (CCL_MSG) 

0x443a: mem_thread_wrapper + 0x4a (ccl_mem) 

0x2b5d1: msg_exe_main + 0x81 (CCL_MSG) 

0x17076: RegisterWaitForInputIdle + 0x48 (kernel32) 

End-trace 

Quartus II 32-bit Version 11.1 Build 173 11/01/2011 SJ Web Edition 

 

any Ideas?
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Altera_Forum
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Sorry, I found the problem, I need to run Qsim on a computer for which I have administative rights. (It works fine on my home computer.) 

So, back to my original issue: it's too bad that vwf creation and waveform simulation has been eliminated. Instead I will have my intro digital students use QSim.  

FYI: I have created several youtube podcasts on using Quartus and VHDL at: http://www.youtube.com/user/billkleitz#g/c/7bdc4877ac756557
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Altera seems to have eliminated their "Archive Downloads" so my students can't find version 9.1 sp2 to get the Vector Waveform File (.vwf) capability. This was a great entry-level simulator only available prior to version 10.0. 

Does anyone know where we can find the downloadable Quartus version 9.1? 

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Altera has put Quartus II Version 9.1 sp2 back on their download center. This is by far the cleanest way to create VWF files and run simulations without creating testbenches for modelsim. Version 9.1 lacks support for some of the latest high-power altera products, but for university education it is more than enough!! For a podcast on creating vwf simulation files see: http://youtu.be/7yko3pfnimq 

 

Bill
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