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Verilog TestBench in Quartus II web edition

Altera_Forum
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I have a verilog testbench and a testcase from a previous design and am trying to revive it using quartus II web edition software. The testbench has been successfully compiled and simulated using some other simulator long ago. All i need to do is check the integrity of the design files and do a sample simulation. I believed with minor tool specific tweaks i should be able to do it. 

 

However, It seems like for functional simulation in quartus II, one needs to generate a vector file, which i think is significant rework. Is there any way to just be able to compile and functionally simulate any existing verilog testbench with quartus II ? 

 

Regards.
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Altera_Forum
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I have a verilog testbench and a testcase from a previous design and am trying to revive it using quartus II web edition software. The testbench has been successfully compiled and simulated using some other simulator long ago. All i need to do is check the integrity of the design files and do a sample simulation. I believed with minor tool specific tweaks i should be able to do it. 

 

However, It seems like for functional simulation in quartus II, one needs to generate a vector file, which i think is significant rework. Is there any way to just be able to compile and functionally simulate any existing verilog testbench with quartus II ? 

 

Regards. 

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Hi kdesai, 

 

it is not possible to run a verilog testbench with the Quartus build-in simulator. 

You have to use a third party simulator like the web edition of modeslsim. I would not 

spend too much work in converting the testbench into a vector file, because the Quartus 

simulator will be removed with the next release. 

 

Kind regards 

 

GPK
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