DSP Builder for Intel® FPGAs (Advanced Blockset): Handbook

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4.4.4. Compiling Testbenches and Model Libraries

Intel recommends that you generate and compile the testbench in a new subdirectory, for example cmodel/build.

Procedure

  1. Create a subdirectory cmodel/build and change to that directory in a terminal window.
  2. Run the CMake build scripts using CMake 3.13 or greater to generate project files or makefiles. For example, from the cmodel/build subdirectory on Windows run:
    cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64” -DWRITE_STM_FILES=1 ../
    Or on Linux:
    export CC=/path/to/gcc/6.3.0/1/linux64/bin/gcc export CXX=/path/to/gcc/6.3.0/1/linux64/bin/g++
    cmake -G "Unix Makefiles” -DWRITE_STM_FILES=1 ../
    Defining WRITE_STM_FILES=1 ensures stimulus files are emitted by the C++ model, which allows the testbench to compare the reference Simulink stimulus files with the C++ model stimulus files. The WRITE_STM_FILES flag causes individual models to emit stimulus files at their input/output nodes (Channel In/Out or GPIn/Out blocks). To control the generation of the stimulus files you can define WRITE_STM_FILES globally, or locally to particular files, when integrating the software models into other systems.
  3. Manually invoke the generated project files/makefiles to compile the testbench executable and model library. Alternatively, run CMake again with the '-build' option to compile, e.g:
    cmake –build . –config Release
Explore the testbench source code and CMake scripts to see how to integrate generated software models into a larger, system-level, simulation.