Install 'qhsim' and 'vsim' in Ubuntu

 Verified on : Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

• Install modelsime student edition from http://download.altera.com/akdlm/software/acdsinst/13.1/162/ib_installers/ModelSimSetup-13.1.0.162.run
• Go to the folder in which the .run file is located and type chmod +x filename.run, it will install modelsim (which contains qhsim, vsim etc)
• To start qhsim, change directory to /home/vineeshvs/altera/13.1/modelsim_ase/bin. There you can find the binaries (/executables) for the following

drill     mc2autopart    qhcvt      qhlib  qverilog  scgenmod vcom      vdir           vhencrypt  vmap   wlf2log   xml2ucdb
dumplog64 mc2com         qhdel      qhmake qvhcom    sdfcom   vcover    vencrypt       vlib       vopt   wlf2vcd
hm_entity mc2perfanalyze qhdir      qhmap  qvlcom    sm_entity vdbg      verror         vlog       vrun   wlfman
jobspy    mc2_util       qhgencomp  qhsim  sccom     vcd2wlf   vdel      vgencomp       vmake      vsim   wlfrecover

• To start qhsim, type ./qhsim

One of the projects using qhsim

Install Modelsim in Ubuntu

Updates (23/09/14): The steps given below are for 32-bit version of Ubuntu. To install Modelsim on 64 bit Ubuntu, please refer to this link. 

What is Modelsim?

• Modelsim is a hardware simulation and debug environment primarily targeted at smaller ASIC and FPGA design (Ref)

How do I install it?

• Download Modelsim Linux edition from here 
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• Go to the download location of the .run file and type chmod +x ModelSimSetup-13.1.0.162.run
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• Use the command ./ModelSimSetup-13.1.0.162.run install Modelsim

 How do I start Modelsim? 

• Change your directory to 'Location_where_you_installed_Modelsim'/altera/13.1/modelsim_ase/linuxaloem 
• Type ./vsim

 Verified on: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS