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XC2000: XDE 5.0: About "Can't open 2018.spd" message.


Record #440

Product Family:  Software

Product Line:  FPGA Core

Problem Title:
XC2000: XDE 5.0: About "Can't open 2018.spd" message.


Problem Description:
Keywords: XC2000, XDE, 2018, speedfile

Urgency: Standard

Description

When invoking XDE, it always issues a message indicating that it  can't find the
 2018.spd file or other files associated with the 2018 device, even if the 2018
device is not selected.

When installing the XACT 5.0 tools, users have the option to not install support
 for certain devices. You may choose not to install the 2018  device files. Howe
ver, XDE, on startup, always looks for the 2018 device files as a preliminary ch
eck of the setup. Thus an error message may occur if that device
was not installed.


Solution 1:

The error is harmless, but if you want to fix it you must install support for th
e 2018, or alternatively edit the 2018 device out of the $XACT/data/partlist.xct
 file (not recommended).




End of Record #440