Using VHDL Simili on Linux

These instruction should help you get VHDL Simili running on Linux. Don't do this on the lab machines--it violates the acceptable use policy (plus, Synpsys is already there). This is for those with Linux on a machine of their own.

Installing Simili

1. Download the Simili package from their web site. Save it in the /tmp/ directory.
2. Untar the archive. At a shell, cd /tmp and then tar xf Simili20b24-linux-x86.tar .
3. Install the software. Type ./install.sh and follow the instructions.
4. Add Simili setup to your startup scripts.

   If your shell is bash or sh, add these lines to your ~/.profile:

   export SYMPHONYEDA="/path/where/you/installed/simili"
. "$SYMPHONYEDA/bin/init.sh"

   If you use csh, add these lines to your ~/.cshrc:

   setenv SYMPHONYEDA "/path/where/you/installed/simili"
source "$SYMPHONYEDA/bin/init.csh"
5. Log out and back in.

Running Simili

1. Compile your models. Run the command vhdlp myfile.vhd for each file.
2. Create a command file. For example, in a file my.cmd, put lines like:
   add list /tb/x
add list /tb/y
add list /tb/z

   These are the variables you're going to trace.

3. Run the simulation. The command vhdleentity -do my.cmd -t 1000ns will simulate for 1000 ns. This creates a file simili.lst in the current directory with the simulation results.

The simili.lst is a text file and could reasonably read as-is, but you'll probably want to see the waveforms.

Installing and running Visibly

1. Download Visibly.
2. Unzip the source with unzip visibly12.zip .
3. Copy both .tcl files into current directory (the one with your with VHDL files).
4. wish visibly.tcl and open simili.lst .