EDA Simulator Link™ MQ (for Mentor Graphics® ModelSim®) 2.4

Product Description

• Introduction and Key Features
• Working with EDA Simulator Link™ MQ
• Using ModelSim® with MATLAB®
• Using ModelSim® with Simulink®
• Integration with Xilinx® System Generator and Altera® DSP Builder

Introduction

EDA Simulator Link™ MQ is a cosimulation interface that integrates MATLAB® and Simulink® into the hardware design flow for field program­mable gate array (FPGA) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) development. It provides a fast bidirectional link between MATLAB and Simulink and ModelSim® HDL simulator (from Mentor Graphics). EDA Simulator Link MQ software enables you to efficiently verify your RTL-level models from within MATLAB and Simulink. It provides native cosimulation support for both VHDL® and Verilog®.

The traditional Simulink system-level design and simulation environment supports mixed-language simulation of MATLAB, C, C++, and Simulink blocks. By adding HDL to the simultaneous, direct, mixed-language capabilities of MATLAB and Simulink, EDA Simulator Link MQ integrates algorithm and system design with hardware implementation.

Key Features

• Full VHDL® and Verilog® support
• MATLAB® component capability, enabling simulation of MATLAB code in place of HDL
• Frame-based simulation, providing accelerated verification (with Signal Processing Blockset™, available separately)
• User-selectable communication modes between MATLAB and Simulink® and ModelSim®, providing shared memory (for faster performance) and TCP/IP sockets (for versatility)
• Multiple simulation options from one Simulink model, in­cluding connection of multiple Simulink HDL cosimulation blocks to one or more ModelSim simulators
• Multiple simulation options from MATLAB, including connection of multiple MATLAB components or test benches to one or more MATLAB servers
• Interactive or batch mode cosimulation, debugging, testing, and verification of HDL code from MATLAB

Simulink® and ModelSim® communicating via a fast, bidirectional cosimulation interface. Click on image to see enlarged view.

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