Simply RISC S1 Core - Simulation Environment ============================================ To run a simulation using the free software Icarus Verilog simulator use the following commands: build_icarus run_icarus If you want to use a commercial tool such as Synopsys VCS then set up your PATH enviroment variable so that you are able to find the "vcs" executable, and then type in the following commands: build_vcs run_vcs Within this design the only visible difference between Icarus and VCS is the speed: the commercial tool could be hundreds of times faster than its FLOSS counterpart; but with Icarus if you have time to wait for some minutes you will obtain exactly the same results just using free software. At the end of the simulation you can look at the logfile and at the waveforms placed at the following paths: run/sim/icarus/sim.log run/sim/icarus/trace.vcd run/sim/vcs/sim.log run/sim/vcs/trace.vcd Obviously if you do not have access to a commercial tool you can use GTKWave to look at the waveforms: for instance from the top-level directory just type in the following command: gtkwave run/sim/icarus/trace.vcd & and then from "File|Read Save File" choose the file named "tools/src/gtkwave.sav".