FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Intel Simics simulator for Intel FPGAs is a full-system simulator supporting the definition, development, and deployment of virtual platforms. It is fast, accurate, scalable, and extensible.

The simulator runs unchanged target binaries in a fast and controllable way, providing an ideal environment for early software development and testing pre-silicon and post-silicon, and even post-availability.

The virtual platforms can be used throughout the product life cycle, from the earliest product architecture through design and evaluation, to firmware development, and OS bring-up, and finally to modeling actual customer systems and full-system integration.

With the Simics simulator, you can have your software available by the time that the new silicon arrives, reducing your product time-to-market.

Intel® Simics® simulation technology has a long history in both industry and academia. Initially called a full-system simulator, it was created in the early 1990s as part of research into future multiprocessor architectures at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS*), which is now a part of RISE*, the Research Institute of Sweden.