F-Tile Avalon® Streaming Intel® FPGA IP for PCI Express* Design Example User Guide

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Date 10/04/2021
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3.3. Simulating the Design Example

Figure 14. Procedure
  1. Run the simulation script under <example_design>/pcie_ed_tb/pcie_ed_tb/sim/<simulator> directory for the simulator of your choice. Refer to the table below.
  2. Analyze the results.
Note: F-Tile does not support parallel PIPE simulations.
Table 3.  Steps to Run Simulation
Simulator Working Directory Instructions
VCS* <example_design>/pcie_ed_tb/pcie_ed_tb/sim/synopsys/vcs/
  1. Type
    sh vcs_setup.sh USER_DEFINED_COMPILE_OPTIONS="" USER_DEFINED_ELAB_OPTIONS="+vcs+lic+wait\ -full64\ -hsopt=gates\ -debug_pp\ +define+RTLSIM\ +define+SSM_SEQUENCE\ " USER_DEFINED_SIM_OPTIONS="" | tee simulation.log
    Note: The command above is a single-line command.
  2. A successful simulation ends with the following message,
    "Simulation stopped due to successful completion!"
    in the simulation.log file that was generated.
Note: To run a simulation in interactive mode, use the following steps: (if you already generated a simv executable in noninteractive mode, delete the simv and simv.diadir)
  1. Open the vcs_setup.sh file and add a debug option to the VCS command:
    vcs -debug_access+all
  2. Compile the design example:
    sh vcs_setup.sh USER_DEFINED_ELAB_OPTIONS="+vcs+lic+wait\ -full64\ -hsopt=gates\ -debug_pp\ +define+RTLSIM\ +define+SSM_SEQUENCE\  " SKIP_SIM=1
  3. Start the simulation in interactive mode:
    simv -gui &

VCSMX

<example_design>/pcie_ed_tb/pcie_ed_tb/sim/synopsys/vcsmx/
  1. Type
    sh vcsmx_setup.sh USER_DEFINED_COMPILE_OPTIONS="+define+RTLSIM\ +define+SSM_SEQUENCE\ -sverilog\ +define+QUARTUS_ENABLE_DPI_FORCE\ " USER_DEFINED_ELAB_OPTIONS="\$QUARTUS_INSTALL_DIR/eda/sim_lib/quartus_dpi.c\ -debug_access+f\ +vcs+lic+wait\ -full64\ -hsopt=gates\ -debug_pp\ " USER_DEFINED_SIM_OPTIONS="" | tee simulation.log
    Note: The command above is a single-line command.
  2. A successful simulation ends with the following message,
    "Simulation stopped due to successful completion!"
    in the simulation.log file that was generated.
Note: To run a simulation in interactive mode, use the following steps: (if you already generated a simv executable in noninteractive mode, delete the simv and simv.diadir)
  1. Open the vcsmx_setup.sh file and add a debug option to the VCS command:
    vcs -debug_access+all
  2. Compile the design example:
    sh vcsmx_setup.sh USER_DEFINED_ELAB_OPTIONS="+vcs+lic+wait\ -full64\ -hsopt=gates\ -debug_pp\ +define+RTLSIM\ +define+SSM_SEQUENCE\  " SKIP_SIM=1
  3. Start the simulation in interactive mode:
    simv -gui &

QuestaSim*

ModelSim* SE

Questa*-Intel FPGA Edition

<example_design>/ pcie_ed_tb/pcie_ed_tb/sim/mentor/

  1. Invoke vsim (by typing vsim, which brings up a console window where you can run the following commands).
  2. do msim_setup.tcl
  3. ld_debug
  4. run -all
  5. A successful simulation ends with the following message:
    "Simulation stopped due to successful completion!"

The simulation reports, "Simulation stopped due to successful completion" if no errors occur.

The same procedure applicable for PCIe Gen3/4 x16, PCIe Gen3/4 x8x8 and PCIe Gen3/4 x8 design example variants.