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FPGA Design Fundas 0.2: The Need For Simulation Verification & Integration Testing

Posted on Updated on by edgesmart.techCategories:ASIC, Debug, DIGITAL, Digital Logic, Digital Logic Circuit, FPGA, Modelsim, Simulation, Simulation, Testing, Verification

Many industries developing FPGA based electronic products choose to carry out inadequate or almost no simulation verification while resorting to only performing ad-hoc lab testing for debugging, verification and integration testing. Some of the common given reasons for this attitude towards simulation are, “there is no budget allocated in the project for simulation verification”, “there is …
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Installing Altera Modelsim on 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04 – Linux

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I downloaded and the ModelSim-Altera Starter Edition for Linux from Altera (now part of Intel) website at the following webpage: http://dl.altera.com/?product=modelsim_ae#tabs-2 I then installed it on the 64-bit Ubuntu-14.04. After which I ran the following command from within the bin directory of the installed Modelsim and despite the executable present I got the following error: command$> …
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