Intel® Simics® Simulator for Intel® FPGAs: Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series Virtual Platform User Guide

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Document Table of Contents x
1. About This Document 2. Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series Intel® Simics® Virtual Platforms 3. Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series Virtual Platform Component Intel® Simics® Models 4. Running a Simulation with the Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series HPS Model 5. Supported Use Cases A. Document Revision History
1. About This Document x
1.1. Terminology 1.2. List of Acronyms
2. Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series Intel® Simics® Virtual Platforms x
2.1. Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series Universal Virtual Platform
2.1. Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series Universal Virtual Platform x
2.1.1. Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series Universal Virtual Platform Overview 2.1.2. Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series Universal Virtual Platform User-Configurable Parameters 2.1.3. Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series Virtual Platform Key Capabilities
2.1.1. Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series Universal Virtual Platform Overview x
2.1.1.1. Intel 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. Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series 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
3. Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series Virtual Platform Component Intel® Simics® Models x
3.1. Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series HPS Intel® Simics® Model 3.2. Virtual Platform HPS Subsystem Components 3.3. Virtual Platform qsys_top Components 3.4. Virtual Platform Board Components
3.1. Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series HPS Intel® Simics® Model x
3.1.1. Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series 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 Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series HPS Components
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 Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series HPS Model x
4.1. Prerequisites 4.2. Intel® Simics® Simulation Setup for the Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series Device 4.3. Starting the Simulation 4.4. Getting Device Information from the Intel® Simics® Model
1. About This Document
2. Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series Intel® Simics® Virtual Platforms
3. Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series Virtual Platform Component Intel® Simics® Models
4. Running a Simulation with the Intel Agilex® 5 E-Series HPS Model
5. Supported Use Cases
A. Document Revision History

2.1.3.8. FPGA-to-HPS Bridges

The FPGA-To-HPS bridges provide a way in which the FPGA fabric IPs can interact with the HPS subsystem and the SDRAM. The bridge implementation includes two new memory spaces in the FPGA logic model that are used to send read and write transactions to the HPS or SDRAM component from the FPGA logic passing through the FPGA-to-HPS bridges.
  • FPGA to HPS bridge (FPGA2HPS): Connects the FPGA2HPS memory space with the HPS component.
  • FPGA to SDRAM bridge (FPGA2SDRAM): Connects the F2SDRAM memory space with the HPS component.

You can send read and write transactions through each one of the bridges from the Intel® Simics® CLI, as shown in the following table:

Bridge Command
FPGA2HPS Write: system.board.fpga.soc_inst.fpga2hps_mem_space.write address = <address> value = <value>
Read: system.board.fpga.soc_inst.fpga2hps_mem_space.read address = <address>
F2SDRAM Write: system.board.fpga.soc_inst.f2sdram_mem_space.write address = <address> value = <value>
Read: system.board.fpga.soc_inst.f2sdram_mem_space.read address = <address>
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