Beginning with the CoventorWare 2008 and MEMulator 2007 releases, Coventor products will no longer be supported on Windows 2000

• The CoventorWare 2008 release will not be supported on Windows Vista
• CoventorWare is no longer supported on Sun Solaris

CoventorWare 2008 Operating Systems

• Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2
• Windows XP Professional 64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4 and 5, 32-bit

Hardware

• Intel pentium 4 or newer or AMD X86-compatible CPU
  • minimum 700 MHz, faster is recommended
  • minimum 512 kB L2 cache, more is recommended
  • Dual CPUs or dual core CPUs, such as Intel Core Duo, are recommended because they allow use of the machine for other tasks while CoventorWare field solvers are running Selected field solvers make use of dual CPUs/cores.
• 1 GB RAM or more (page file size should be set to twice the RAM size)
  (a max of 3 GB RAM is accessible on 32-bit Windows or Linux)

• 1.3 GB of disk space for installation
• Minimum 5 GB free disk space for operation, more is recommended
• Graphics card
  • Support for OpenGL Version 1.2 or higher
  • Support for DirectX 9
  • Minimum 64 MB dedicated memory, more is recommended
  • Cards with NVIDIA or ATI chip sets that pass all tests run by Tech Soft America, a Coventor supplier, are recommended.
  • Up-to-date driver software

Import/Export Formats

• Imports 2-D layout files in GDSII, CIF, and DXF (version R14 or lower) formats
• Exports 2-D layouts in GDSII, DXF (version R09), IGES and SAT formats
• Imports 3-D solid models in ACIS SAT (.sat, version 16 or lower) and Pro/Engineer .prt and .asm formats
• Exports 3-D solid modesl in ACIS SAT, STEP and IGS formats
• Imports 3-D meshes in UNV (version 10 or 11) format
• Exports 3-D meshes in Ansys Prep7 (.ans) format
• Imports Ansys structural result files (.rst), displacements only

MEMulator System Requirements

Windows XP Professional SP2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4 and 5
Intel or AMD CPU
  • minimum 700 MHz, faster is recommended
  • minimum 512 kB L2 cache, more is recommended

1 GB RAM or more

150 MB of disk space for installation

Minimum 5 GB free disk space for operation, more is recommended

Graphics card
  • Support for OpenGL
  • Minimum 64 MB dedicated memory, more is recommended
  • Cards based on NVIDIA or ATI chip sets are recommended
  • Up-to-date driver software
  • At least one bit of alpha buffer (available on most newer cards)

Display set to 1024 x 768 minimum resolution, 16-bit color or better