Problems with PLI in reading and generating saif file

Hello
I'm using PLI in modelsim to generate a saif back file to Synopsys , because I want evaluate my switching activity. When i Load my project in my testbench, called main.v (this is a Verilog project), these warning are issue:

** Warning: (vsim-PLI-3003) /dati/test4x4_conDMA_preSIN_30giu/main.v(758): [TOFD] - System task or function '$read_lib_saif' is not defined.
# Region: /main
# ** Warning: (vsim-PLI-3003) /dati/test4x4_conDMA_preSIN_30giu/main.v(759): [TOFD] - System task or function '$set_toggle_region' is not defined.
# Region: /main
# ** Warning: (vsim-PLI-3003) /dati/test4x4_conDMA_preSIN_30giu/main.v(760): [TOFD] - System task or function '$toggle_start' is not defined.
# Region: /main
# ** Warning: (vsim-PLI-3003) /dati/test4x4_conDMA_preSIN_30giu/main.v(761): [TOFD] - System task or function '$toggle_stop' is not defined.
# Region: /main
# ** Warning: (vsim-PLI-3003) /dati/test4x4_conDMA_preSIN_30giu/main.v(762): [TOFD] - System task or function '$toggle_report' is not defined.
# Region: /main

How can I use PLI? I've check my modelsim.ini and this seems to be correct? I'm loosing some detail? thanks for hepling me

You need to link appropriate PLI SO files to VSIM. Usually the SNPS Power compiler should provide this for you - I believe you use that to generate the SAIF file.

Look at:


Note that $SYNOPSYS variable should be set to your SYNOPSYS directory. Also, $ARCH is your system architecture, like "linux", "sparcOS5", etc.

Good Luck
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thaks for your replay, i have discover the problem reading Power Compiler, infact i didn't have this part in my installation, and I 've read that to use PLI you need software like Verilog-XL, VCS, MTI and I was using Modelsim. Alternatively I've generate my vcd files from modelsim.