compile elaborate and simulate on older specman & ncsim version

 Hi Eyal.

 I really wouldn't recommend starting a new project in these older versions because if you hit any problems with the tools, you'd be forced to upgrade to one of the supported versions for any fixes etc anyway, and that could be more painful mid-project than now.

Anyway, I'm not going to preach to you about that, I'm sure you have a reason for sticking to such an old version...

First you would need to create a stubs file for the HDL that Specman's going to talk to. E.g. if you're connecting to Verilog signals, create and compile a Verilog stub. You need to load your e testbench into Specman and do "write stubs -verilog". This generates a specman.v file which you must compile with ncvlog.

Compile all your other RTL with ncvlog/ncvhdl, then elaborate with "ncelab". You can either instantiate the specman stub module in your Verilog testbench file, or pass it as a top module to ncelab:

ncelab your_testbench_top_module specman <other args>

You then either run "specview ncsim <snapshot name>" to open the GUI, or just run ncsim in batch mode and it should pull in Specman automatically (if I recall correctly, 5.0.3 was a long long time ago).

Don't forget you can open the Specman docs under any version by typing "sn_help.sh at the Unix prompt...