On Jul 2, 3:49*pm, gabor <ga...@alacron.com> wrote:
> 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 again, I get a dialog telling me the source is out of date and I can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

Duh! Now that you say that, I see how obvious that is. I guess
pushing buttons makes it so easy to forget what is going on. I was
thinking that restart the simulation was ending it and the compile
would start the new one, but obviously "restart" means restart! Would
have thought that would happen???

That is what happens when you don't use a tool for a few months. I do
still remember which end of the hammer to hold...

Thanks,

Rick