ModelSim
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ModelSim is a widely used hardware description language (HDL) simulation and debugging environment for VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog designs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ModelSim canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7328826 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: ModelSim Context triple: [Mentor Graphics, product, ModelSim]
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A.
Quartus design software
Quartus design software is Altera’s integrated development environment used for designing, simulating, and implementing FPGA and CPLD digital logic circuits.
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B.
VHDL
VHDL is a hardware description language used to model, simulate, and implement digital electronic systems such as FPGAs and CPLDs.
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C.
Cadence Research Systems
Cadence Research Systems is a software company best known for creating and maintaining the Chez Scheme implementation of the Scheme programming language.
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D.
MAX+PLUS II
MAX+PLUS II is a legacy computer-aided design software suite from Altera used for developing, simulating, and programming programmable logic devices such as FPGAs and CPLDs.
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E.
Verilog
Verilog is a hardware description language (HDL) used to model, design, and verify digital circuits and systems such as those implemented in CPLDs and FPGAs.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: ModelSim Target entity description: ModelSim is a widely used hardware description language (HDL) simulation and debugging environment for VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog designs.
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A.
Quartus design software
Quartus design software is Altera’s integrated development environment used for designing, simulating, and implementing FPGA and CPLD digital logic circuits.
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B.
VHDL
VHDL is a hardware description language used to model, simulate, and implement digital electronic systems such as FPGAs and CPLDs.
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C.
Cadence Research Systems
Cadence Research Systems is a software company best known for creating and maintaining the Chez Scheme implementation of the Scheme programming language.
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D.
MAX+PLUS II
MAX+PLUS II is a legacy computer-aided design software suite from Altera used for developing, simulating, and programming programmable logic devices such as FPGAs and CPLDs.
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E.
Verilog
Verilog is a hardware description language (HDL) used to model, design, and verify digital circuits and systems such as those implemented in CPLDs and FPGAs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
HDL simulator
ⓘ
electronic design automation tool ⓘ software product ⓘ |
| developedBy | Mentor Graphics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
ModelSim DE
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
ModelSim PE NERFINISHED ⓘ ModelSim PE Student Edition NERFINISHED ⓘ ModelSim SE NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Tcl scripting interface
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assertion-based verification support ⓘ breakpoints ⓘ code coverage analysis ⓘ command-line interface ⓘ do-file automation ⓘ foreign language interface ⓘ graphical user interface ⓘ graphical waveform viewer ⓘ incremental compilation ⓘ macro recording ⓘ mixed-language simulation ⓘ multi-library management ⓘ optimized simulation kernel ⓘ project management environment ⓘ signal forcing ⓘ source-level debugging ⓘ testbench debugging ⓘ watch windows ⓘ waveform logging ⓘ |
| hasStudentVersion | true ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Intel Quartus Prime
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Xilinx Vivado NERFINISHED ⓘ other EDA tools via standard interfaces ⓘ |
| licenseType | commercial ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Siemens EDA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Siemens EDA tool portfolio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousOwner | Mentor Graphics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runsOn |
Linux
NERFINISHED
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Windows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supports |
UVM-based verification (via SystemVerilog)
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testbench automation ⓘ transaction-level modeling ⓘ |
| supportsLanguage |
SystemVerilog
NERFINISHED
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VHDL NERFINISHED ⓘ Verilog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
IEEE 1076 VHDL
NERFINISHED
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IEEE 1364 Verilog NERFINISHED ⓘ IEEE 1800 SystemVerilog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
ASIC design verification
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FPGA design verification ⓘ debugging SystemVerilog designs ⓘ debugging VHDL designs ⓘ debugging Verilog designs ⓘ functional simulation of digital designs ⓘ verification of HDL designs ⓘ |
| usedIn |
FPGA development flows
ⓘ
academic research and teaching ⓘ semiconductor industry ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: ModelSim Description of subject: ModelSim is a widely used hardware description language (HDL) simulation and debugging environment for VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog designs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.