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QuartusII software exception: error: top level design entity “” is undefined

 

 

When using quartus to design digital circuits, we encountered the following compilation errors:

Info: *******************************************************************
Info: Running Quartus II 64-Bit Analysis & Synthesis
 Info: Version 11.0 Build 157 04/27/2011 SJ Full Version
 Info: Processing started: Thu May 15 13:09:59 2014
Info: Command: quartus_ map –read_ settings_ files=on –write_ settings_ files=off simulate -c simulate
Info: Parallel compilation is enabled and will use 2 of the 2 processors detected
Info: Found 1 design units, including 1 entities, in source file simulate.v
 Info: Found entity 1: modelsim_ test
Error: Top-level design entity “simulate” is undefined

Error: Quartus II 64-Bit Analysis & Synthesis was unsuccessful. 1 error, 0 warnings
 Error: Peak virtual memory: 324 megabytes
 Error: Processing ended: Thu May 15 13:10:01 2014
 Error: Elapsed time: 00:00:02
 Error: Total CPU time (on all processors): 00:00:01
Error: Quartus II Full Compilation was unsuccessful. 3 errors, 0 warnings

 

as a result of

The module name in Verilog file (. V) is inconsistent with the top-level design entity (usually the file name of. V file).

module modelsim_test(clk,rst_n,div);
input clk;
input rst_n;
output div;
reg div;
always@(posedge clk or negedge rst_n)
	if(!rst_n)div<=1'b0;
	else div<=~div;
endmodule 

The name of the module above is Modelsim_ Test, and the Verilog file name in the project directory is simulate, as shown in the following figure.

The solution is: model sim_ Test is changed to simulate.

Compiled successfully!