Reply To: OSVVM 2020.08 New user experience

[Richard Head]

If you wanted to prohibit the testbench from running further after it stops, use std.env.finish instead. It also allows an integer parameter, so you can call it as:
std.env.finish(GetAlertCount) ;

Given @Chengshan mentioned Aldec, I thought I would mention that ActiveHDL in batch mode doesnt currently return the value from finish() or stop() or assertion failures to the system, so you cannot use this to detect a test failure. Ive worked around it by having a process that sets a “tb_fail” signal to ‘1’ at the end of the test, and use the surrounding tcl to examine its value after the test finishes. This is then thrown from tcl as an error.

My ticket says its targeted for ActiveHDL 11.2, but I raised it 18 months ago.