Will Questa Intel Starter FPGA Edition-64 support Vizualizer?

[zener]

The new flow in Questasim will migrate from wlf to qwave. Will the Questa Intel Starter FPGA Edition-64 support Visualizer?

[ShengN_Intel]

Hi,

Yes, Questa Intel Starter FPGA Edition-64 does support Visualizer qwave. Can check with command vsim -help Visualizer. Attached the screenshot for your reference.

Thanks,

Best regards,

Sheng

[zener]

Thank you Sheng, I'm able to do -help and -version, but anything else results in a license checkout error:

$ visualizer -version
2022.4
$ visualizer 
Could not checkout License for feature 'qdebug'
Error: Checkout error 
//  License server does not support this feature (qdebug)

Does it require a special license? I'm able to run vlog,vopt and vsim  including  generating a qwavedb file. But trying to actually inspect the qwave file results in a license checkout error. This is the questa package which was a part of  QuestaSetup-23.1.0.115-linux.run.

[ShengN_Intel]

Hi,

Either one of the license below needed (probably have to get from mentor site):

modelsim_se-lic

questasim_sver-lic

questasim_sysc-lic

questasim_vcover-lic

Then only visualizer can be used in Questa Intel Starter FPGA Edition-64 (check image):

Thanks,

Best Regards,

Sheng

[ShengN_Intel]

Hi,

Any further update or concern?

Thanks,

Best Regards,

Sheng

[zener]

During simulation I'm able to dump waveform files in the new qwave format using the version noted above. But I'm not able to view the waveform using visualizer due to the missing license, e.g. feature 'qdebug'.
I'm concerned about what will happen when you  migrate  to the most recent version of questasim  where wlf is replaced by qwave. 

[ShengN_Intel]

Hi,

I think you miss out this previous post community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Quartus-Prime-Software/Will-Questa-Intel-Starter-FPGA-Edition-64-support-Vizualizer/m-p/1504400#M79305

Thanks,

Best Regards,

Sheng

[ShengN_Intel]

Hi,

Any further update or concern on previous post community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Quartus-Prime-Software/Will-Questa-Intel-Starter-FPGA-Edition-64-support-Vizualizer/m-p/1504400#M79305 ?