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ModelSim Xilinx User’s Manual Projects and system initialization 3-35
3 - Projects and system initialization
Chapter contents
What is a project? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
A new file extension. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
INI and MPF file comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
The [Project] section in the .mpf file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Project operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Creating a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Working with a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Open a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Compile a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Simulating a project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Modifying a project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
The project command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
This chapter provides a definition of a ModelSim "project" and discusses the use
of a new file extension for project files.
With the 5.3 release, ModelSim incorporates the file extension .mpf to denote
project files. In past releases the modelsim.ini file (the system initialization file)
was used as the project file.
Note: If you are looking for information on project file variables, please see Appendix A - ModelSim
Variables.