Please help me!!! ModelSim question

[Simone Winkler]

Hello!

I am a newbie trying to perform a simulation with ModelSim...
I did a (very small) project with the Xilinx downloadable webpack - and as i
wanted to simulate it with modelsim, modelsim closed after the following
line:

#vsim -lib work -t 1ps -L xilinxcorelib testbench

the transcript file shows the following:

# Reading D:/Programme/Modeltech_5.5d/win32/../tcl/vsim/pref.tcl

my modelsim version is 5.5d - but i also tried 5.5e. Didn't work!
They always crash after the same line.
I already tried to reinstall everything - no change. I don't know what to do
anymore...please help me!!!!

Thanx,
Simone

 

[Mike Treseler]

Hello!

I am a newbie trying to perform a simulation with ModelSim...
I did a (very small) project with the Xilinx downloadable webpack - and as i
wanted to simulate it with modelsim, modelsim closed after the following
line:

#vsim -lib work -t 1ps -L xilinxcorelib testbench

yikes! Let's start with something a little simpler.

1.Open an editor and save the following file as hi.vhd:

-------------------------
-- hi.vhd
entity hi is
end entity hi;

architecture sim of hi is

begin
process is
begin
report "Hi.";
wait;
end process;
end architecture sim;
--------------------------

2. bring up a modelsim or vsim prompt.

3. use the pwd, cd, and dir commands
to get to hi.vhd

4. make a work library:

vlib work
vmap work work

5. Compile hi.vhd

vcom hi.vhd

6. Run hi

vsim -c hi
run

7. If you get: # ** Note: Hi
then Modelsim is not your problem.
Compile your own source files the same way
and take if from there.
use: vdir to make sure everything compiled
use: vdir -lib ieee to make sure you have the standard packages
use: vdir -lib xilinxcorelib to make sure you have the xilinx lib

-- Mike Treseler