- #Installing modelsim altera vhdl model files install
- #Installing modelsim altera vhdl model files update
- #Installing modelsim altera vhdl model files 32 bit
- #Installing modelsim altera vhdl model files software
- #Installing modelsim altera vhdl model files code
It’s a growing community for everyone interested in FPGA design using VHDL. In fact, you should join it even if you’re not experiencing problems. But there are a few threads about the subject on the FPGA Design Tools forum on the Intel Community Forum (formerly Altera Forum).Īnother option is to make a post in VHDLwhiz’ private Facebook group: VHDL for FPGA Engineers. Ubuntu is officially unsupported by Intel, so there’s no point in asking them.
Output from the diff between ‘vco’ and ‘vco_original’ # Download the old 32-bit version of libfreetype
#Installing modelsim altera vhdl model files install
Sudo apt install gcc-multilib g++-multilib lib32z1 \ # Download the 32-bit libraries and build essentials ~/intelFPGA/*.*/modelsim_ase/vco_original # Check that the correct lines have changed Sed -i '/dir=`dirname "$arg0"`/a export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$/lib32' \ # Edit the vco script manually, or with these commands: (cd ~/intelFPGA/*.*/modelsim_ase/ & cp vco vco_original) # Start with ModelSimSetup-*-linux in your home directoryĬhmod u+w ~/intelFPGA/*.*/modelsim_ase/vco These are the commands for making ModelSim work in Ubuntu 20.04 Select the ModelSim-Intel FPGA Edition (includes Starter Edition) option, as shown in the image below. Go to Intel’s Download Center for FPGAs to obtain the installer.Ĭhoose the Lite Edition for Linux, and click the Individual Files tab on the same page. Where to download the ModelSim-Intel FPGA Edition for Linux For reference, I followed the procedure from PrieureDeSion’s GitHub gist, with a few changes to make it work with Ubuntu 20.04. The video below shows how I did it on a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 virtual machine.
#Installing modelsim altera vhdl model files software
The software is available for both Windows and Linux, but Intel only supports Red Hat-based distros like CentOS Linux.įortunately, you are just a few hacks away from ModelSim working nicely on your Ubuntu box. Test by running vsim and hopefully you will be greeted by the ModelSim GUI.The ModelSim version that comes with Intel Quartus Prime Lite Edition is a good alternative if you want to try out VHDL simulation on your home computer. Now we need to edit the vsim launch script to ensure the new freetype libraries are used:Īnd underneath add the following new line: Sudo cp ~/Downloads/freetype-2.4.12/objs/.libs/libfreetype.so*. Note you may need to edit the directory paths to match those used on your system. As they are necessary to run ModelSim we need to copy them into the install directory so they don't get lost and then modify ModelSim's vsim script to use the new libraries instead of the system wide versions.Ĭhange directory to the directory where you installed ModelSim, /opt/altera/13.1/modelsim_ase/, on my system. The finished libraries are now available inside the " objs/.libs" directory. Sudo apt-get build-dep -a i386 libfreetype6 Now install the build dependencies needed for libfreetype6, extract the source (using tar) and configure and build libfreetype:
#Installing modelsim altera vhdl model files code
For an unknown reason ModelSim has an issue with modern versions shipping in Arch and Ubuntu 14.04.įirst download the source code of freetype 2.4.12: Then you probably need to build a new version of freetype, a font setting library and modify ModelSim to use it.
** Fatal: Read failure in vlm process (0,0) Problem number two: If you have the following error when running vsim:
#Installing modelsim altera vhdl model files update
Sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib g++-multilib \Įxpat:i386 fontconfig:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libexpat1:i386 libc6:i386 libgtk-3-0:i386 \ Luckily this is fully supported on a modern Linux like Ubuntu 14.
#Installing modelsim altera vhdl model files 32 bit
On Linux this requires us to install the 32 bit versions of the libraries that it depends on. Problem number one: The free version of ModelSim Altera Edition is 32 bit only while the normal Linux PC will be 64 bit. This article mostly adapts the work done by the Arch Linux crew. Luckily I had lots of helpful information on the internet (major sources linked below) to get it going. Trying to get a version of ModelSim running on a very modern version of Linux often presents challenges.