Intel® Simics® Simulator for Altera® FPGAs: Agilex™ 5 and Agilex™ 3 Virtual Platform User Guide
3.1. HPS Intel® Simics® Model
This section describes the Intel® Simics® model of the Agilex™ 5 and Agilex™ 3 HPS and provides information related to the model architecture and device model availability.
The Agilex™ 5 and Agilex™ 3 HPS models are identical with only some configuration changes in the Agilex™ 3 HPS model made to mimic the function of the Agilex™ 3 HPS.
For the HPS component, only relevant limitations compared with physical hardware are provided. Descriptions of features supported by the physical hardware are available in the Hard Processor System Technical Reference Manual: Agilex™ 5 SoCs and Hard Processor System Technical Reference Manual: Agilex™ 3 SoC .
The HPS Intel® Simics® model can run a commercial operating system such as Linux* or Zephyr* RTOS and supports the ability to select the boot core and core power states.
When compared to the HPS in the Agilex™ 7 SoC, the HPS in the Agilex™ 5 and Agilex™ 3 devices includes support for new features, such as TSN, USB 3.1 Gen1, and I3C.