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The following are primary API commands. Note that library sets the

– library []
– Make LibraryName found in library directory specified by path the active library.
– Create the LibraryName if it does not exist.
– If path is not specified, use the library directory specified by SetLibraryDirectory.
– analyze [/] [options]…[Read more]

I can see that the scripts use the explicit name of the file for analyze and run_test TCL commands. However, it is also possible to just do a file search and with the filenames in a list, iterate over the list and call analyze or run_test for each of them.

Why isn’t it done in this way?

Also, I was expecting to see a whole lot of commands that…[Read more]

When OSVVM is compiling files, I get a whole lot of messages like this:

# QuestaSim-64 vcom 10.6c Compiler 2017.07 Jul 26 2017
# Start time: 23:57:14 on Jun 06,2024
# vcom -2008 -work osvvm_cosim ../OsvvmLibraries/CoSim/src/CoSimInterruptHandler.vhd
# — Loading package STANDARD
# — Loading package TEXTIO
# — Loading package std_logic_1164
# –…[Read more]

Thanks. I will get the updates in OSVVM scripting.

I did “global aldec”, all lower case.

The error message was referencing an all uppercase $ALDEC but “global aldec” fixed this issue. I noticed the same thing with “puts $aldec” vs “puts $ALDEC” as you describe.

No, there is no $aldec used in the $PATH_TO_SIM_DIR on my machine, that just points to the project directory on my C:/ drive.

Thanks,
Brad

Thanks Jim, I understand this better now – it’s scoping issue when multiple types are getting visible to a test.

Regards
Ajeetha

Hi Brad,
Did you add “global aldec” or “global ALDEC”? Your note above seemed to indicate that it is lower case. OTOH, the error messages are referencing an upper case $ALDEC. I should note if I do “puts $aldec” it works. If I do “puts $ALDEC” it does not work.

There is no “$aldec” in $PATH_TO_SIM_DIR right?

Cheers,
Jim

Hey,

I totally agree. This is part of what was so confusing to me. I could see that when using $aldec and running the test the variable would be properly expanded as you show, however, a bit further into the run, when attempting to load the aldec_matlab_cosim.dll the path would still show an unexpanded variable $ALDEC in the path.

I actually…[Read more]

Currently to get the HTML and JUnit XML reports you must use OSVVM scripting. The problem is that both the scripts and the VHDL code writes to the files.

I use alerts in protocol checkers. If a VC receives a transaction done event when a transaction is not active, that is an alert and not an affirmation – think of the older intel X86 interfaces that used the signal nRdy to indicate a transaction is complete – receiving a stray nRdy is a bad thing.

More direct control refers to output formatting when a check passes or fails.

> From my knowledge, VHDL already contains resolution functions for scenarios where something has multiple drivers. So are new functions required to resolve records with multiple drivers?
VHDL has a resolution function for std_ulogic named resolved. Its non-driving element is ‘Z’. Its default value is ‘U’. If you do not initialize it, then…[Read more]

Hi Brad,
Cool. If we end up needing that, it will be added. However, that said, I am curious as to why it is needed. Normally variable expansion is done in the calling scripts.

So if I do:
SetExtendedSimulateOptions "-dbg -t 0 -ieee_nowarn -dataset {./sim} -datasetname {sim} -loadvhpi $aldec/bin/aldec_matlab_cosim.dll:ml2hdl"

Then I…[Read more]

Hi Ajeetha,
Since you are creating a code generator I recommend that when it uses ScoreboardIDType that it always uses a selected path that includes the library and package as that way if people using the generated code add to it they too will not have any issues – and they will have a safe example from which to template.

If your generator…[Read more]

Hi Ajeetha,
WRT scoreboards, there are no known issues with either GHDL or NVC.

There is a subtle VHDL thing with using or referencing multiple generic packages that declare a type – such as ScoreboardIDType that is declared in ScoreboardGenericPkg.

If you reference only one Scoreboard package instance, such as ScoreboardPkg_slv, then the…[Read more]