Specifications

CHAPTER 7: SIMULATION
SIMULATING DESIGNS WITH THE QUARTUS II SIMULATOR
136 ■ INTRODUCTION TO QUARTUS II ALTERA CORPORATION
Simulating Designs with the
Quartus II Simulator
You can use the Quartus II Simulator to simulate any design in a project.
Depending on the type of information you need, you can perform a
functional simulation to test the logical operation of your design, a timing
simulation to test both the logical operation and the worst-case timing for
the design in the target device, or a timing simulation using the Fast Timing
model to simulate the fastest possible timing conditions with the fastest
device speed grade.
The Quartus II software allows you to simulate an entire design, or to
simulate any part of a design. You can designate any design entity in a
project as the top-level design entity and simulate the top-level entity and all
of its subordinate design entities.
You can specify the type of simulation that should be performed, the time
period covered by the simulation, the source of vector stimuli, and other
simulation options in the Simulator page of the Settings dialog box
(Assignments menu) or in the Simulator Tool window (Tools menu).
Figure 3 shows the Simulator page.