Intel® Simics® Simulator for Intel® FPGAs: User Guide

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Date 7/08/2024
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5.3.1. Version of the Intel® Simics® Simulator for Intel FPGAs Software

The installation version of the Intel® Simics® simulator and the packages that are part of this can be retrieved from the Intel® Simics® simulator CLI using the version command as indicated in the following capture. Knowing this version (and build ID) is important when asking for support or reporting a problem with the software, hence this helps to reproduce the problem and track it back to the point at which the problem was first introduced.

In the following example, you can see that the version command provides the version and the Build ID for each one of the packages in the current installation:

# Intel Simics simulator CLI
simics> version
Simics Base (linux64) on Linux (6.2.0-32-generic)

Installed Packages:
-----------------------------------------------------------
Pkg     Name         Version       Build ID      
------------------------------------------------------------
1000  Simics-Base    6.0.172       6240
1030  Crypto-Engine  6.0.4         6233
1031  GDB            6.0.2         6231
9000  IntelFPGA-ext  6.0.234000026 intel.fpga:234000025
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