Dumping SAIF in Questa Advanced Simulator/ModelSim - 2020.2 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Logic Simulation (UG900)

Document ID
UG900
Release Date
2020-11-23
Version
2020.2 English

Questa Advanced Simulator/ModelSim uses explicit power commands to dump an SAIF file, as follows:

  1. Specify the scope or signals to dump, by typing:
    power add <hdl_objects>
  2. Run simulation for specific time (or run -all).
  3. Dump out the power report, by typing:
    power report -all filename.saif

For more detailed usage or information about each commands, see the ModelSim documentation.

Example DO File

power add tb/fpga/*
run 500us
power report -all -bsaif routed.saif
quit