PXI 7833 No Third Party Simulator

[schnog]

Hello,

currently i am realizing a digital interface using labview fpga.

Hardware used:
PXI-1065 (chassis)
PXIe-8133 (Controller)
PXI-7833r (FPGA Card)I know that the controller and the card are obsolete.

Software used:
Labview 2015SP1 32Bit
Xilinx Compilation ISE 10.1
Windows 7 Sp1

To test the code now i would like to use a third party simulator but this option is greyed out even though i have selected xilinx simulator in the settings. Can it be that this option does not exist for the Virtex 2? How can I create an accurate simulation?

Best Regards

[Terry_ALE]

LabVIEW has its own simulation mode.  See https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/labview-fpga-module/page/debugging-fpga-vis-using-simulation-mo...

[schnog]

Thank you for your reply.
But I already know the Labview own simulator with desktop execution mode. The problem is that you can't do cycle-accurate simulation with it, like with Xilinx ISim. Additionally, you can't display the individual signals so accurately in a timing diagram with the individual signals being High or Low or am I wrong?

[Terry_ALE]

Not sure if you have used LabVIEW FPGA before but in my experiences I have rarely needed cycle accurate simulation using LabVIEW FPGA. As a cots/platform HLS many of those issues do not come up. Typically this is an expectation that digital designers have.

Sampling probes can help with looking at timing when running in simulation mode. 

If the above assumptions don't apply to your case let me know. 

[schnog]

Hey Terry,

Thanks for your help. I have changed the device in a current fpga target in the simulation and then I can work with the 3rd party simulator. But now i have recognized that the simulation with this Xilinx simulator isn't very efficient and helpfull for normal LabVIEW FPGA Applications. So you are right in this point.

Now I optimized my code with SCTLs and the same timebase. So I can simulate it with desktop execution node and as you mentioned before with Sampling Probes. But i am still not very happy with the Sampling Probes, because they are so unwieldy. You cant store the configuration and you cant zoom out only in time axis and so on. Its not the best Tool I think. 

I hope that in future the Debugging and Screening Tools will be better, because its difficult to create a good simulation for documentation now.

If you have any other tips and tricks on this topic I would be happy to hear about them.

Thanks and best regards.