Intel® Simics® Simulator for Intel® FPGAs: Agilex™ 5 Virtual Platform User Guide

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Document Table of Contents x
1. About This Document 2. Agilex™ 5 Intel® Simics® Virtual Platforms 3. Agilex™ 5 Universal Virtual Platform Component Intel® Simics® Models 4. Running a Simulation with the Agilex™ 5 HPS Model 5. Supported Use Cases 6. Troubleshooting Issues When Migrating Software from Intel® Simics® to Hardware A. Document Revision History for Intel Simics Simulator for Intel FPGAs Agilex 5 Virtual Platform User Guide
1. About This Document x
1.1. Terminology 1.2. List of Acronyms
2. Agilex™ 5 Intel® Simics® Virtual Platforms x
2.1. Agilex™ 5 Universal Virtual Platform
2.1. Agilex™ 5 Universal Virtual Platform x
2.1.1. Agilex™ 5 Universal Virtual Platform Overview 2.1.2. Agilex™ 5 Universal Virtual Platform User-Configurable Parameters 2.1.3. Agilex™ 5 Universal Virtual Platform Key Capabilities
2.1.1. Agilex™ 5 Universal Virtual Platform Overview x
2.1.1.1. Agilex™ 5 HPS Component 2.1.1.2. HPS Subsystem Component 2.1.1.3. FPGA Fabric Design 2.1.1.4. qsys_top Component 2.1.1.5. FPGA Component 2.1.1.6. Board Component 2.1.1.7. System Component 2.1.1.8. Target Script
2.1.3. Agilex™ 5 Universal Virtual Platform Key Capabilities x
2.1.3.1. Boot-To-Operating System Prompt 2.1.3.2. Basic Ethernet 2.1.3.3. CPU Power-On and Boot Core Selection 2.1.3.4. Reset Flow 2.1.3.5. General Purpose I/O (GPIO) Loopback 2.1.3.6. USB Disks Hot-Plug Support 2.1.3.7. On-Chip Memory IP FPGA Fabric Example Design 2.1.3.8. FPGA-to-HPS Bridges 2.1.3.9. Exercising Peripheral Subsystem in FPGA Fabric Design 2.1.3.10. USB Controller Host/Device Mode Configuration 2.1.3.11. Agilex™ 5 HPS Component and Stepping Silicon Features Selection 2.1.3.12. UART1/UART2 Serial Console Selection
3. Agilex™ 5 Universal Virtual Platform Component Intel® Simics® Models x
3.1. Agilex™ 5 HPS Intel® Simics® Model 3.2. Virtual Platform HPS Subsystem Components 3.3. Virtual Platform qsys_top Components 3.4. Virtual Platform Board Components 3.5. Modeling Support Limitations
3.1. Agilex™ 5 HPS Intel® Simics® Model x
3.1.1. Agilex™ 5 HPS Intel® Simics® Model Architecture 3.1.2. PSS Subsystem Components 3.1.3. MPU and APS Subsystem 3.1.4. MPFE Subsystem 3.1.5. Additional Agilex™ 5 HPS Components 3.1.6. Agilex™ 5 B0 Features Support
3.2. Virtual Platform HPS Subsystem Components x
3.2.1. External Memory Interface (EMIF) 3.2.2. Security Device Manager (SDM)
3.3. Virtual Platform qsys_top Components x
3.3.1. FPGA Fabric
3.4. Virtual Platform Board Components x
3.4.1. Marvel EMAC PHY 3.4.2. SD Card Device 3.4.3. ONFI NAND Memory Device 3.4.4. SPI Flash Device 3.4.5. AT24Cxx EEPROM Device 3.4.6. I3C Device 3.4.7. USB Disk Device 3.4.8. Intel® Simics® Text Console
4. Running a Simulation with the Agilex™ 5 HPS Model x
4.1. Prerequisites 4.2. Intel® Simics® Simulation Setup for the Agilex™ 5 Device 4.3. Starting the Simulation 4.4. Getting Device Information from the Intel® Simics® Model
1. About This Document
2. Agilex™ 5 Intel® Simics® Virtual Platforms
3. Agilex™ 5 Universal Virtual Platform Component Intel® Simics® Models
4. Running a Simulation with the Agilex™ 5 HPS Model
5. Supported Use Cases
6. Troubleshooting Issues When Migrating Software from Intel® Simics® to Hardware
A. Document Revision History for Intel Simics Simulator for Intel FPGAs Agilex 5 Virtual Platform User Guide

2.1.1.5. FPGA Component

The FPGA component represents the top-level hardware design model in the Quartus® Prime software project design that targets the Agilex™ 5 SoC FPGA device. It matches the logical hierarchy of the fictitious GHRD that the Agilex™ 5 Universal Virtual Platform models. This component only instantiates the qsys_top component and is implemented as a Python script named sm_universal_fpga_comp.py.

The hierarchical name of the FPGA component in the virtual platform is system.board.fpga

A block diagram of the FPGA component is as follows:

Figure 5. FPGA Component
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