Why does my VHDL variant of the eCPRI Intel® FPGA IP fail to simulate in Synopsys VCS MX®?

Description

Due to a problem in the Intel® Quartus® Prime software versions 20.1 and later, when using a VHDL variant of the eCPRI Intel® FPGA IP in Synopsys VCS MX*, the simulator’s compiler will flag errors stating that there are type mismatches for parameter “ADV_MAP”.

Resolution

To work around this problem in the Intel® Quartus® Prime version 20.1 and later, follow the steps below:

1)     Locate the generated top-level wrapper file of your eCPRI Intel® FPGA IP here:

       <variant_name>/sim

 

2) Change every “ON” or “OFF” string that is assigned to the parameter “ADV_MAP” to integer 1 or 0, respectively, as shown below:

From

ADV_MAP       : string           := "ON"; 

To

ADV_MAP       : integer           := 1;

From

ADV_MAP       => "OFF",

To 

ADV_MAP       => 0,

This problem is fixed starting with the Intel® Quartus® Prime software version 20.3.