On Jul 2, 3:17*pm, rickman <gnu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been using Active-HDL (AHDL) for over a year now and I am
> pretty happy with it. *For one thing, it doesn't have the apparently
> unfix-able, tool crashing, memory leak that every version of Modelsim
> I have ever used seems to have.
>
> I find that as I go through the edit-compile-simulate cycle I use the
> toolbar buttons to 1) Restart the simulation, 2) recompile all modules
> 3) use a right click menu to clear the waveform display. *But this
> mostly does not actually recompile the code or does not recompile it
> fully or does not use the recompiled code. *After a source change I
> have to run around this cycle twice to get the new code to actually
> simulate.
>
> What am I missing? *I find that if I *don't* recompile and try to run
> again, I get a dialog telling me the source is out of date and I can
> recompile if I want. *If I say yes, it recompiles and *always* seems
> to do it correctly.
>
> I would say that was a clue, but I am not being Hercule Poirot today
> it seems.
>
> Rick

Don't know about AHDL, but in ModelSim you definitely need to
do steps 1 and 2 in the reverse error to use the newly
recompiled code. The last time I touched Aldec stuff was
when Xilinx Foundation (4.1 and prior) had it bundled together.

Regards,
Gabor