HP (Hewlett-Packard) Model Sim EE manual

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    Start H ere fo r Model Sim EE EE Install ation - 6 Installat ion - UNIX p latforms - 7 Installat ion - W indo ws platf orms - 10 Loc ating Do cumen tation - 21 Tech S upport, Updates & Lice nsing - 25 Online Ref er ences - 32[...]

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    M o d e l Sim /VHDL , Mo del Sim /VLOG, Model Sim /LN L, an d Mode l Sim /P LUS ar e p r o d u c e d b y Mo d e l T e c h n o l o g y I n c o r p o r a t e d . U n a u t h o r i ze d c o p y i n g , d u p l i c a t i o n , or ot h er r e p r o du ct i on i s p r o h i bi t ed w i t h o ut t h e w r itt e n c o n s e nt of M od e l T e c h n o l o g[...]

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    3 Than k you Thank y ou for p urchasin g from Model T echnology’s fa mily of s im ulation products! If we can hel p you with any addi ti onal produc t informat ion, please email our sa les de partment at sa les@mode l.co m , or vi sit our home page at www. model.c om . Model Si m Elite Edition Si mulators for UNIX and Wi ndows • EE/V HDL - for [...]

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    4 Ta bl e of C on te nt s EE In s ta lla ti on - 6 Sys tem r equi rem ents fo r Mode lSi m EE - 6 Insta llati on - UNIX p latfo rms - 7 Insta llati on - Win dow s pl atfor ms - 10 In stal ling the F LEXid sec ur ity k ey - 10 In stal lati on an d set up for a PC serv er - 1 0 Tr oubl esho otin g PC ser ver setu p - 12 Se tup f or a UN IX s er ver -[...]

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    T a ble of Conte nts 5 Lice ns e s - Mod elSim EE - 29 Whe re t o obta i n your lice nse - 29 If y ou hav e trou bl e w ith li censi ng - 29 Al l cust om ers: Model Sim EE li censi ng - 29 A lice ns e.da t fil e ex am ple - 2 9 Al l cust omer s: mai n tena nce r enewal s a nd EE li ce nse s - 32 Al l cust omer s: lice ns e t rans fers an d ser ver [...]

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    6 Start Here for Mo delSim EE EE Installa tion Sy stem r eq uire men ts fo r Mode l Sim EE Pla t f or m- s pe c if ic ins tr uc t io ns Selec t your platf orm for in st allati on instr uctions. • Installa tion - UNIX platf orms (p7) • Installa tion - Windows platform s (p10) Note: Any PC cli ent o r se rver must be c onne cted to a network with[...]

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    EE In stal latio n 7 In st a ll ati on - U NIX plat fo rms Before you be gin a new Mo del Sim E E insta llation on a UNIX machine, make sure you have a Globetro tter licen s e dat a fil e ( lice nse.dat file); you ’ll need the file to run Mode l Si m . If you don’t ha ve a license file see "L ic en se s - Mo de lS im EE " (p29). Your [...]

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    8 Start Here for Mo delSim EE In additi on to the pla tfo rm-speci fic f ile you need to ext r a ct base.t ar (common Mode l Si m file s) a nd doc s.t a r (document ation). 3 Add the pat hname of the Model Si m exec uta ble dire ct ory to your searc h path (us e one of the fol lowi ng): /usr/modeltech/sun4 /usr/modeltech/sunos5 /usr/modeltech/hp700[...]

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    EE In stal latio n 9 Note: T o enabl e starti ng the license daemon from any di rectory, change the DAEMON line to use the ful l path. For example : DAEMON modeltech /usr/modeltech/hp700/modeltech /usr/modeltech/hp700/options 6 For HP instal lation usi ng HP- U X version 9. x o nly: either the de vic e /dev/ lan0 must be writable by t he use rID [...]

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    10 Start He re for Mod elSim EE Ins tal lati o n - Wi ndow s pla tfor ms Note: Any PC cli ent o r se rver must be c onne cted to a network with TCP/ IP o r IPX/SPX. I f yo u are i nstalli ng on an NT machine, make sur e you are logged in as "admi nis trat or" when running th e instal lation pr ogra m. Model Si m EE requires a serve r for [...]

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    EE I nstal lati on 11 2 During ins tallati on you will be aske d to choose a Sentine l driver for your specifi c FLEXid securit y key. The number on your F LEXid s ecurity key (somethi ng lik e 7-xxxxxx xx, or 8 -xxxxxxxx) r elate s to the drive r you wil l se le ct . 3 Copy lice nse.dat (the license file you re ceived by emai l when you purchase d[...]

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    12 Start He re for Mod elSim EE 8 Go to the FLEXlm Lice nse Manager l oc ate d in your Control Panel . Choose the Setup t ab an d add the pat hnames for th e lmgrd. exe, lic ense.dat, and debug. log. Mak e s ure t he path names a nd exten si ons are cor rect, the n save the setup . Typic al entries mi ght look lik e this: lmg rd.exe C:m odelsim w[...]

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    EE I nstal lati on 13 If your lice ns e server is a UNIX workstation, make sure you are runn ing lmgrd ver si on 5. 12b. If you have Model Si m 5.2 inst al led on the UNIX server, y ou ha ve the curre nt ve rsio n - ea rli er lmgrd ver sions wil l not work for Windows machine s a cce s sing the serve r. If you need a new versio n o f lmgrd, plea s [...]

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    14 Start He re for Mod elSim EE Ins talled f iles - Model Sim EE Directory Files & sub directories Description <insta ll di rector y> /< m od els im _di r > * NOTE: the de fault Model Si m direc tory is /m ode ltech for UNIX, and /mode ls im for Windows conve rt.tc l, models im.ini , r ebui ld_ lib s.csh, r ebui ld_lib s.sh, r ele a[...]

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    EE I nstal lati on 15 ./doc s tec hnotes, HTML, winhel p, ee_st art_here. pdf, ee_t utoria l_<ver >.pdf, ee_ma nual_<ver>.p df, ee_d oc_index. pdf sdk_ um .pdf, gene ral Model Sim tec hnot es, HTML vers ions of the Tc l/ Tk man page s , WinHelp version of the Tcl m an pages, Start Here docume nt in PDF forma t, Model Sim Tut ori al in P[...]

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    16 Start He re for Mod elSim EE ./ie ee vari ous libr ary for acce le rat ed IE EE and Synops ys ari thme ti c p ac kag es ./ie ee pure vari ous st andard VHDL IEEE lib ra ry ./inc lude vari ous incl ude fi les fo r use with Veri log PLI, VHDL fo reign i nterf ace , an d TCL ./mgc_po rtable vari ous Mento r Graphi cs Quick Sim com patibl e logic se[...]

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    EE I nstal lati on 17 ./vhdl _src/ie ee mti _numeric_ bit.vh d, mti _numeric_ s td. vhd, std logic.vhd source s for rebui lding basic IEEE std _logic_ 1164 libra ry and acce le rat ed IE EE ari thm et ic pac k age s ./vhdl _src/mento r nume ric_extra .vhd, nume ric_sign ed.vhd, nume ric_unsi gned.vhd, qsi m _logi c.vhd, qsi m _relati ons. vhd, qsi [...]

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    18 Start He re for Mod elSim EE Note: T h e versi on of std_l ogic _arith cont ained in file std _arit.v hd is NOT the vers i on that is com piled in to the Model Sim ie ee l ibrary. This vers ion i s comp iled into libr ary ar ithmeti c and is av ai lab le for cust om ers who ma y ha ve previ ous ly used Ment or QuickVhdl , a nd used the Men tor a[...]

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    EE I nstal lati on 19 Pl atfo rm- spec ifi c d ir ect orie s Platform-spe c ific directories wi thin the <modelsim_ dir> dire ctory ( hp7 00 , rs6000 , sun4 , sunos 5, an d win32 ) contain fi le s as noted below. Platform-sp ecific directo ries - UNIX platforms Files in UNIX platform di rect ory Description DUMPLOG64 dumps readable content fo[...]

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    20 Start He re for Mod elSim EE vgenco mp M o del Sim too l f o r us e with Veril og module s i n VHDL vsim Mo del Sim s im u la tor wav2log tran slates Model Si m lo g file to Quick Sim II log file ./rs 6000/ mti_ expo rts lis t of foreign inte rface routin es expor ted fro m mti ./s un4/vsim.swift Mo del Sim sim ulato r f or use wit h LMG mode ls[...]

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    Loca ti ng Documenta tion 21 Locating Do cumentati on On lin e do cum ent a tio n Model Te chno logy docum en tation , inclu ding th is bookl et, is ava il able in Adobe Acrobat (P DF) format for onl ine viewing. PDF doc ume nta tio n is more than elect ronic imag es of p ape r manual s. You’ll find it easi er to follow cr os s re fere nc es ( cl[...]

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    22 S t ar t H e re for Mod e lS i m E E Ou r do c u m e nt a t i o n re q uir e s A c rob a t Re a d e r v e r s i o n 3 . 0 1 for v i e w i ng ( fre e from a dob e . com , a n d on t h e Mod e l S i m CD). We sugg e s t y ou use th e R e ad e r w i t h S e a r ch f o r v i ew i n g th e f il e s b e c a u s e i t f a c il i t a t e s i nde x ed s [...]

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    L oc a t i ng Doc u m e nt a t i on 23 • M e nt o r Gr a ph i c s V HD L d e s i g n d e v e lop m e n t kit • d e f a ul t p a t h : /< m od e l s i m _ d ir > /do c s / s dk_ u m . pdf S t art He r e fo r M o del Si m (this guide) • PDF f orm a t • i n s t a ll a t i o n an d s up p or t re f er e nc e s • d e f a ul t p a t h : /[...]

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    24 Start He re for Mod elSim EE indexe d docu ment. Se e "Re quirements for Ac robat Search" (p24) belo w. The Find icon in iti ates a simple text se arch of the PDF f ile. Dependi ng on the spe ed of your machine an d the size of th e file, Fi nd ca n be slow (but effect ive ). Requir ements for A cr obat Search To use Acroba t Sea rch w[...]

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    T ech S upport , Update s & Licens i ng 25 Tech Suppo rt, Updat es & Licen sing Mod el Sim con tac t ma trix If you a re v ie wing this document online, sele ct a l ink fo r Model Sim sa le s and suppo rt from t he tabl e below, or s e e t he secti ons that foll ow for add iti onal det ail. Tech nica l suppo rt - by t eleph one Ment or Grap[...]

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    26 Start He re for Mod elSim EE Th e mor e prelim inar y inf ormat ion cu sto m ers ca n sup p ly ab out a pro blem or issue a t the begi nning of the reporti ng process , th e sooner the Soft ware Suppor t Engine er ( SSE) can suppl y a sol ution or work arou nd. Inform ation of mos t help t o t h e S SE inclu des accu r ate oper atin g s yste m a[...]

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    T ech S upport , Update s & Licens i ng 27 To establ is h a SupportNet ac count for your site (both a site -based Support Net -W eb ac count and a user-ba sed Suppor tNet Emai l account), please submit t he fol lowing info rma ti on: name, pho ne num ber , fax number, emai l address , co mpany name, site ID. Within one busi nes s day, you will [...]

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    28 Start He re for Mod elSim EE Tech nica l su pport - othe r chan nel s Fo r cu sto me rs w ho p ur chas ed Mo del Sim a s par t of a bundle d p roduct fr om an OEM, or VAR, suppor t is availa bl e at the followi ng: • Anna polis Microsystems email : wftech@annap m i cro .com tel ephone: 1 -410-8 41-2514 web si te : http:/ /www.annapm ic ro.com [...]

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    T ech S upport , Update s & Licens i ng 29 Model Technology c ustomers: ge tting the l atest version via FTP You can ftp the lat es t ve rsion of the softwa re from t he web site at ftp:// ftp.m odel.com . Ins truct ion s are t here as well. A v alid li cens e file f rom Model Techno logy is ne ede d to uncompress the Mod el Si m EE fi les . A [...]

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    30 Start He re for Mod elSim EE FEATURE vsim modeltech 1998.080 31-aug-98 1 FCB4FD0F2A635C20E5CF ck=128 FEATURE vlog modeltech 1998.080 31-aug-98 1 0C944D9F176CA773E889 ck=10 FEATURE vsim-vlog modeltech 1998.080 31-aug-98 1 FCB41D9FC43C87567DBC ck=116 FEATURE hdlcom modeltech 1998.080 31-aug-98 1 4C94EDFF6A00858BC8F2 ck=93 FEATURE hdlsim mo[...]

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    T ech S upport , Update s & Licens i ng 31 Fo r ex am p le , DAEMON modeltech /usr/mti5.2/sunos5/modeltech /usr/mti5.2/sunos5/options A FEATURE line descr ibes how many li cens es ("to kens") a re ava ilabl e; it contains the feature name, daemon req uire d, most current buil d d at e authori zed to run, t oken expi ration date, num[...]

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    32 Start He re for Mod elSim EE All custome rs: maintena nce renewals a nd EE lice nses When main ten ance is r enewed, a n ew lic ense fi le t hat i nco rpora tes the new main ten ance expira ti on date wil l be au tomatic al ly sent to you. If main tenance is not re newed, the c urrent l icen se fi le wil l sti ll pe rmit t he us e of any version[...]

  • Page 33

    Model T echnol ogy License Agre emen t 33 Model Te chn ology License Agreem ent Sof twar e Lice nse A greeme nt T his i s a le gal ag re emen t betw ee n you , th e end user, an d Mod el Te chno lo gy In corp ora ted (M T I). By op en in g the se al ed packa g e, or by sig ning thi s form , you are ag ree in g to be b ou nd by th e te rms o f this [...]

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    3 4 St a r t H e r e f o r Mo d e l S i m EE a s r e c e i v e d f r o m M T I. A l l c o p i es of the S O F T W A R E , w h e th e r p r o v i d ed by M T I or m a de b y y o u , sh a l l r em a i n t h e p r o p e r t y o f M T I o r i t s l i c e ns o r s . Y o u w i l l m a i n t a in a r e c o r d of t h e n u m b er a nd l o c at i on o f a [...]

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    Model T echnol ogy License Agre emen t 35 CU S TO M E R RE M ED IE S . MT I ’s en ti r e li ab ili ty an d yo ur exc l us iv e r e me dy sh a ll b e, a t MT I’s opt io n, e ith er (a ) r et urn of th e pr ice p ai d or (b ) r epai r or re plac em e nt of the S OFT WA RE tha t does n ot me et MTI ’s Li mited Warra nty a nd wh ich i s retur ned[...]

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    Model T ech nology Inco rporated www .model.c om Keep these number s handy for tech sup port: UNIX s erver hos tid # : FLEXid s ecuri ty ke y # :[...]

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    Thank you f or purchas ing Mo delSim! A M ENT OR G RA PHICS COM P AN Y Model Technology www.model.c om[...]