L-Tile and H-Tile Avalon® Memory-mapped Intel® FPGA IP for PCI Express* User Guide

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Date 4/03/2023
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2.5. Simulating the Design Example

Figure 17. Procedure
  1. Change to the testbench simulation directory, pcie_example_design_tb.
  2. Run the simulation script for the simulator of your choice. Refer to the table below.
  3. Analyze the results.
Table 9.  Steps to Run Simulation
Simulator Working Directory Instructions
ModelSim* <example_design>/pcie_example_design_tb/pcie_example_design_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_example_design_tb/pcie_example_design_tb/sim/synopsys/vcs
  1. sh vcs_setup.sh USER_DEFINED_COMPILE_OPTIONS="" USER_DEFINED_ELAB_OPTIONS="-xlrm\ uniq_prior_final" USER_DEFINED_SIM_OPTIONS=""
  2. A successful simulation ends with the following message, "Simulation stopped due to successful completion!"
NCSim* <example_design>/pcie_example_design_tb/pcie_example_design_tb/sim/cadence
  1. sh ncsim_setup.sh USER_DEFINED_SIM_OPTIONS="" USER_DEFINED_ELAB_OPTIONS="-timescale\ 1ns/1ps"
  2. A successful simulation ends with the following message, "Simulation stopped due to successful completion!"
Xcelium* Parallel Simulator <example_design>/pcie_example_design_tb/pcie_example_design_tb/sim/xcelium
  1. sh xcelium_setup.sh USER_DEFINED_SIM_OPTIONS="" USER_DEFINED_ELAB_OPTIONS ="-timescale\ 1ns/1ps\ -NOWARN\ CSINFI"
  2. A successful simulation ends with the following message, "Simulation stopped due to successful completion!"
The DMA testbench completes the following tasks:
  1. Writes to the Endpoint memory using the DUT Endpoint non-bursting Avalon® -MM master interface.
  2. Reads from Endpoint memory using the DUT Endpoint non-bursting Avalon® -MM master interface.
  3. Verifies the data using the shmem_chk_ok task.
  4. Writes to the Endpoint DMA controller, instructing the DMA controller to perform a MRd request to the PCIe* address space in host memory.
  5. Writes to the Endpoint DMA controller, instructing the DMA controller to perform a MWr request to PCIe* address space in host memory. This MWr uses the data from the previous MRd.
  6. Verifies the data using the shmem_chk_ok task.

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

Figure 18. Partial Transcript from Successful Simulation Testbench