Intel® Simics® Simulator for Altera® FPGAs: Release Notes

ID 870556
Date 12/05/2025
Public
Document Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Updated for:
Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Suite 25.3

As part of its commitment to provide tools to ease and reduce the development time, Altera® provides the Intel® Simics® Simulator for Altera® FPGAs software that includes the simulation model for some of the Altera FPGA devices along with their virtual platforms.

The Intel Simics model of the supported Altera FPGA devices and their virtual platforms help simulate the corresponding hardware, allowing you to exercise your software in the early stages of your development process as part of the continuous integration process.

This document provides information about the releases of the Intel Simics simulator, including new features in each release and known issues.