Troubleshooting

Each feature page ends with an If it doesn’t work table for its own symptoms. This page covers problems that affect several features at once, and points to the page that owns each fix.

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You see	Likely cause	What to do
Nothing is colored, or the file looks like plain text	The plugin is not installed or enabled, or the file has another extension	Installation: if it doesn’t work
An “undeclared name” underline, “not found” in Find Usages, or code you expect is greyed out	A macro is not defined where the IDE looks (an `ifdef branch is inactive), the setting that evaluates `ifdef is off, or the file is not covered by your compile file (the simulator’s .f list of sources, like sim.f in the sample project)	Conditional compilation
A check you expect shows no underline	The check (an inspection) is switched off, or indexing has not finished	See Undeclared names. Open Settings (⌘, on macOS, Ctrl+Alt+S on Windows/Linux), Editor | Inspections | SystemVerilog; wait for the progress bar at the bottom right
Completion or Parameter Info is empty	Indexing, or the declaration is not in the project	Code completion
UVM names (uvm_driver, uvm_info) do not resolve	The UVM sources are not in the project	Navigation does nothing below
A balloon about the license	The license is missing or expired	License

Go to Declaration or Find Usages does nothing

Go to Declaration is ⌘B / Ctrl+B (or ⌘-click / Ctrl-click) and Find Usages is ⌥F7 / Alt+F7. When they find nothing, the editor stays where it is or the Find panel says nothing was found.

Likely cause	What to do
The project is still indexing (the IDE scanning your files so that it can look names up; a progress bar at the bottom right shows it)	Wait until the progress bar is gone
The declaration is not in the project. UVM library classes resolve only when the UVM sources (the folder with uvm_pkg.sv and uvm_macros.svh) are inside the project folder, or are listed in your compile file (+incdir+<uvm>/src and <uvm>/src/uvm_pkg.sv)	Add them, then wait for indexing again; see Known limitations
The name is declared by a macro that is called outside a class body	Names a macro declares among a class’s items (type_id from uvm_component_utils) do work, see UVM testbenches; names a macro declares anywhere else are not navigable. Macro names and the names passed to a macro are navigable (Macros)
The name is in greyed-out code	Its `ifdef branch is inactive; see Conditional compilation

Rename reports a conflict

The rename would change what some code refers to. A dialog titled Conflicts Detected (or a similar list) quotes the code whose meaning would change. See Rename conflicts for what each message means. Pick another name, or choose Cancel to leave the code unchanged.

Results look out of date

If files were changed outside the IDE (a git checkout while the IDE was closed, a generated file) and results do not match the code, wait for indexing to finish, then use File | Invalidate Caches…, leave the checkboxes as they are, click Invalidate and Restart, and wait for the progress bar after the restart. This only clears the IDE’s index and restarts it; your files and settings are kept.

License notification

A balloon about the license has the action Register…; see License.

Still stuck?

First check Known limitations: the behaviour may be documented there. If not, report it where you got the plugin and include:

• the IDE and plugin versions (Help | About, and Settings | Plugins | Installed);
• a small file that reproduces the problem, with the compile file if one is used;
• the IDE log (Help | Show Log in Finder on macOS, Help | Show Log in Explorer on Windows, Help | Show Log in Files on Linux).