Aldec

Description

The Aldec suite provides software used in creation and verification of digital designs targeting field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) technologies. Riviera-PRO addresses verification needs of engineers crafting tomorrow’s cutting-edge FPGA and systems-on-a-chip (SoC) devices. Riviera-PRO enables the ultimate testbench productivity, reusability, and automation by combining the high-performance simulation engine, advanced debugging capabilities at different levels of abstraction, and support for the latest Language and Verification Library Standards. HES-DVM is a fully automated and scriptable Hybrid Verification and Validation environment for SoC and ASIC designs up to 96M ASIC gates capable of bit-level simulation acceleration, SCE-MI 2.1 transaction emulation, hardware prototyping, and virtual modeling. HES-DVM provides hardware design teams with multiple modes of high-speed verification and validation including simulation acceleration, transaction level emulation, and hardware prototyping for chip and system level verification of SoC and ASIC systems.

Version

  • Riviera-PRO 2013.06.SR1
  • HES-DVM 2012.06

Authorized Users

  • Faculty and students in the Computer Science & Engineering Dept.
  • Faculty and students in the Electrical Engineering Dept.

Platforms

  • CIRCE cluster
  • RRA cluster
  • SC cluster

Modules

Aldec requires the following module file to run:

  • apps/aldec/2013

Running Aldec on CIRCE

The Aldec user guide is essential to understanding the application and making the most of it. The guide and this page should help you to get started with your simulations. Please refer to the Documentation section for a link to the guide.

  • Note on CIRCE: Make sure to run your jobs from your $WORK directory!
  • Note: Scripts are provided as examples only. Your SLURM executables, tools, and options may vary from the example below. For help on submitting jobs to the queue, see our SLURM User’s Guide.

Batch Jobs

Using the shell script example that calls external Riviera-PRO commands to compile and simulate a design from the documentaion listed above, for example, you would set up a submit script like this:

  • The script below (for testing, name it “aldec-test.sh”) can be copied into your job directory (the folder with your input files) and modified so that you can submit batch processes to the queue.
#!/bin/bash
#
#SBATCH --comment=aldec-test
#SBATCH --ntasks=1
#SBATCH --job-name=aldec-test
#SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=2048
#SBATCH --output=output.%j.aldec-test
#SBATCH --time=01:00:00

#### SLURM 1 processor Aldec test to run for 1 hour.

module load apps/aldec/2013

# create library v_bjack
vlib v_bjack

# compile source files
# working library is specified with -work switch
vlog -work v_bjack src/*.v

# initialize simulation
vsim -c -lib v_bjack V_BJACK_tb –do run.do

 
Next, you can change to your job’s directory, and run the sbatch command to submit the job:

[user@login0 ~]$ cd my/jobdir
[user@login0 jobdir]$ sbatch ./aldec-test.sh
  • You can view the status of your job with the “squeue -u <username>” command


Documentation

Home Page, User Guides, and Manuals

  • Aldec Home Page:
  • Riviera-PRO Documentation:
    • /apps/aldec/riviera/2013.06/RivieraBatchMode.pdf
    • /apps/aldec/riviera/2013.06/RivieraWithGUI.pdf
  • HES-DVM Documentation:
    • /apps/aldec/hes-dvm/2012.06/doc/dvm_product_overview.pdf
    • /apps/aldec/hes-dvm/2012.06/doc/hesaccess/hesaccess.pdf
    • /apps/aldec/hes-dvm/2012.06/doc/hesprototype/reference_manual.pdf

Benchmarks, Known Tests, Examples, Tutorials, and Other Resources

  • Riviera-PRO Examples
    • /apps/aldec/riviera/2013.06/examples

More Job Information

See the following for more detailed job submission information:

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs with Aldec to the IT Help Desk: rc-help@usf.edu