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Tip of the Week: HDL-ICE is not pronounced 'Head Lice' (Unix CLI)

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Greetings all!

HDL-ICE is the RTL front end for Cadence Palladium emulators.  For those who have been using HDL-ICE for a while, you may not realize that there is a UNIX Command Line Interface (CLI) available (as opposed to writing a TCL QEL script).  In fact, it works very nearly like your simulator front-end.  The commands are vavlog/vavhdl for Verilog/VHDL imoprt and vaelab for synthesis (the 'va' is short for 'verification acceleration').  Just use -help on each of these to see their usage.  The only caveat here is that some of the default options are different than in QEL (e.g. memory synthesis is turned on by default in CLI, and off in QEL).

Furthermore, in IXE5.0, vhdl and verilog can now be imported into the same 'work' libraries.  This has been a thorn for many users for a long time and is a tremendous help especially when translating simulation environments to emulation.

Cheers,
Harlinator!

ps - for the record, HDL-ICE is pronounced: H. D. L. ICE.  :)


Originally posted in cdnusers.org by Harlinator
  • Hi, I am facing some problem in doing 'vavhdl'. I am getting error : >> Analyzing VHDL file ../src/common_blocks/d_ip_linflex3/rtl_vhd/linflex3_itf.vhd ...
    ERROR: ../src/common_blocks/d_ip_linflex3/rtl_vhd/linflex3_itf.vhd(line 17): Un-bounded library 'linflex3_lib'
    >> Analyzing entity itf ...
    ERROR: ../src/common_blocks/d_ip_linflex3/rtl_vhd/linflex3_itf.vhd(line 18): Undefined symbol 'linflex3_lib'.
    ERROR: ../src/common_blocks/d_ip_linflex3/rtl_vhd/linflex3_itf.vhd(line 121): VHDL analyzer exiting.
    How can I resolve this issue. I have tried to make cds.lib and hdl.var file and gave library path to work folder but not able to resolve this.

  • I got the solution, I am doing mistake to make cds.lib and hdl.var. Actually I need to create va.lib.

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