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Q:Dynamic PowerAnalysis

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Help! 

I have completed my FPGA design with dspbuilder. I used the 'Signal Compiler' in it to generate a project for using in quartus. Now I want to analyze the power with the powerplay in quartus. but i found the dynamic power analysis in report is zero. I saw some information that I should use modelsim to generate a '.vcd' file and import it into powerplay to get dynamic power analysis. Unfortunately, I fail again in simulating. My design only have two inputs 'clk' and 'aclr', and an 16 bits output. I wrote the testbench like this: 

 

 

...... 

init : PROCESS  

-- variable declarations  

BEGIN 

aclr<='1';  

-- code that executes only once  

WAIT;  

END PROCESS init;  

always : PROCESS  

constant clk_period:time:=20ns; 

constant DELAY : time := 0 fs;  

-- optional sensitivity list  

-- ( )  

-- variable declarations  

BEGIN  

-- code executes for every event on sensitivity list 

wait for DELAY; 

loop  

Clock<='0'; 

wait for clk_period/2; 

Clock<='1'; 

wait for clk_period/2; 

end loop;  

WAIT;  

END PROCESS always;  

...... 

 

I can get the expected wave for clk and aclr, but the output is always 'u', the wave is a red line. 

 

 

now i don't konw how to get correct simulation result or there's any other method to get correct power analysis? 

 

 

Thank you for your read and help in advance.
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