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
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

2.1.3.8. 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:

Table 11.  Sending Read or Write Transactions Through the Bridge
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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