Mentor Graphics ModelSim

Go to the Mentor Graphics website, login, and download the latest version of ModelSim SE. Pick the online installer. Once you download it you will have to add execution rights to the file. Do this and run it from the command line as sudo.

Also, you may have to install quartus found here: http://fpgasoftware.intel.com/. Try doing running modelsim without it first though.

To install ModelSim in Linux you need 4 files, install.linux, modelsim-base.mis, modelsim-doc.mis and modelsim-linux_x86_64 (depending on your architecture). These files are stored on the software share.

Below is a description of each file.

install.linux: The install launcher for Linux

modelsim-base.mis: Modelsim itself, tcl libraries, etc

modelsim-doc.mis: The documentation files

modelsim-linux_x86_64: The platform specific files, such as vcom, vsim, etc.

When you launch the installer in the same directory as these files, it asks which ones you want to install.

TO RUN THE PROGRAM RUN /usr/local/modeltech/bin/vsim

Installation Troubles?

Errors

./vsim: No such file or directory - try running this (the last command might not work):

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 && sudo apt-get install -y lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0

libXft.so.2: cannot open shared object file

sudo apt-get install libxft2 libxft2:i386 lib32ncurses5

libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file. libXext.so.6 not found

sudo apt install libxext6 && sudo apt install libxext6:i386

Helpful site: http://mattaw.blogspot.com/2014/05/making-modelsim-altera-starter-edition.html

Licensing

Edit the /etc/environment file and add the following:

LM_LICENSE_FILE=1717@ece-modelsim.byu.edu