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

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Document Table of Contents
Document Table of Contents x
1. Design Example Description 2. Quick Start Guide 3. P-tile Avalon® Streaming IP for PCI Express* Design Example User Guide Archives 4. Document Revision History for the Intel® P-Tile Avalon® Streaming Hard IP for PCIe* Design Example User Guide
1. Design Example Description x
1.1. Functional Description for the Programmed Input/Output (PIO) Design Example 1.2. Functional Description for the Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) Design Example
2. Quick Start Guide x
2.1. Directory Structure 2.2. Generating the Design Example 2.3. Simulating the Design Example 2.4. Compiling the Design Example 2.5. Installing the Linux Kernel Driver 2.6. Running the Design Example
2.3. Simulating the Design Example x
2.3.1. Testbench
2.3.1. Testbench x
2.3.1.1. Test Driver Module 2.3.1.2. PIO Design Example Testbench 2.3.1.3. SR-IOV Design Example Testbench
2.6. Running the Design Example x
2.6.1. Running the PIO Design Example 2.6.2. Running the SR-IOV Design Example
1. Design Example Description
2. Quick Start Guide
3. P-tile Avalon® Streaming IP for PCI Express* Design Example User Guide Archives
4. Document Revision History for the Intel® P-Tile Avalon® Streaming Hard IP for PCIe* Design Example User Guide

2.3. Simulating the Design Example

The simulation setup involves the use of a Root Port Bus Functional Model (BFM) to exercise the P-tile Avalon® Streaming IP for PCIe (DUT) as shown in the following figure.

Figure 13. PIO Design Example Simulation Testbench

For more details on the testbench and the modules in it, refer to Testbench.

The following flow diagram shows the steps to simulate the design example:

Figure 14. Procedure
  1. Change to the testbench simulation directory, <project_directory>/pcie_ed_tb/pcie_ed_tb/sim/<EDA_vendor>/simulator.
  2. Run the simulation script for the simulator of your choice. Refer to the table below.
  3. Analyze the results.
Note: P-Tile does not support parallel PIPE simulations.
Table 1.  Steps to Run Simulation
Simulator Working Directory Instructions
ModelSim* SE, Siemens* EDA QuestaSim*- 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
    Note: Alternatively, instead of doing Steps 1 and 2, you can type: vsim -c -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!"
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="-xlrm\ uniq_prior_final" USER_DEFINED_SIM_OPTIONS=""
    Note: The command above is a single-line command.
  2. A successful simulation ends with the following message, "Simulation stopped due to successful completion!"
Note:
To run a simulation in interactive mode, use the following steps: (if you already generated a simv executable in non-interactive 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+r
  2. Compile the design example: sh vcs_setup.sh USER_DEFINED_ELAB_OPTIONS="-xlrm\ uniq_prior_final" SKIP_SIM=1
  3. Start the simulation in interactive mode: simv -gui &

This testbench simulates up to a Gen4 x16 variant.

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

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