SEVERE: No file/ip_name.spd

Description

When you run the ip-setup-simulation utility on a Quartus II project that targets a non-Arria 10 device, you might encounter a SEVERE: No file /<ip_name>.spd error message for every IP core in the project, where <ip_name> is the name of an IP core that is in the form of a Quartus II IP File (<ip_name>.qip) within the Quartus II project directory.

The problem occurs because the ip-setup-simulation utility constructs a command line with the incorrect path to each Simulator Package Descriptor File (.spd). As a result, the ip-make-simscript command line contains both the correct and incorrect .spd file paths.

Resolution

The incorrect file paths contain a preceding forward slash (/) before each .spd file path. In the console output of the ip-setup-simulation utility, remove from the ip-make-simscript command line all the paths that start with forward slashes. For example, if the following text appears in the ip-setup-simulation console output:

INFO: Doing: ip-make-simscript --output-directory=<dir> --spd=/ipA.spd,/ipB.spd,ipA.spd,ipB.spd

Modify the command line in the following manner:

ip-make-simscript --output-directory=<dir> --spd=ipA.spd,ipB.spd