System Requirements for Coventor Products

Coventor Licensing 1.0 System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

Hardware

Supported Operating Systems

Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, Service Pack 1
Windows XP Professional 64, Service Pack 2
Windows XP Professional (32-bit), Service Pack 3
NOTICE: Support for this platform will be dropped as of July 2013
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5, 64-bit

MATLAB/Simulink compatibility:

MATLAB/Simulink R2012b 32-bit, running on 32- or 64-bit supported versions of Windows
NOTICE: 32-bit Windows platform support will be dropped as of July 2013

Cadence required modules and compatibility:

Virtuoso_Schematic_Editor 5.1.41 or 6.1.x up to 6.1.5, 32- and 64-bit
Analog Design Environment 5.1.41 or 6.1.x up to 6.1.5, 32- and 64-bit
Spectre or SpectreRF version 7.1.0, 10.1, and 11.1 releases later than 11.1.341 ISR6 (these simulators are included with MMSIM 7.1, MMSIM 10.1 or MMSIM 11.1), 32- and 64-bit
Virtuoso Layout Suite 6.1.x (optional, only required for exporting MEMS+ Pcells) (Versions 5.1.41 are available with IC5141 and versions 6.1.x with IC61x), 32- and 64-bit

Hardware

Intel Pentium 4 class or newer, or AMD X86-compatible CPU
- minimum 2 GHz, faster is recommended
- minimum 1 MB L2 cache, more is recommended
- multi-core processors are recommended because they allow use of the system for other tasks while MEMS+ is running and simulations will run faster
4 GB RAM (more is desirable)
0.4 GB of disk space for installation
Minimum 5 GB free disk space for operation, more is recommended
Graphics card or sub-system
- Support for OpenGL Version 1.4 or higher
- Discrete (as opposed to integrated) graphics with a minimum of 128 MB dedicated memory is recommended.
- NVIDIA chip sets are recommended for Windows and Linux systems. ATI chip sets may be acceptable for Windows systems.
- Up-to-date driver software

Supported Operating Systems

Windows 7 Professional 32-bit and 64-bit, Service Pack 1
NOTICE: Support for the Windows 7 32-bit platform will be dropped as of Sept. 2013
Windows XP Professional 32-bit, Service Pack 3
NOTICE: Support for this platform will be dropped as of Sept. 2013
Windows XP Professional 64-bit, Service Pack 2
NOTICE: Support for this platform will be dropped as of Sept. 2013
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WorkStation 4 or Desktop 5, 64-bit
NOTICE: Support for the Workstation 4 platform will be dropped as of Sept. 2013

Hardware

Intel Pentium 4 class or newer, or AMD X86-compatible CPU
- minimum 2 GHz, faster is recommended
- minimum 2 MB L2 cache, more is recommended
- Multi-core processors are recommended because the field solvers will run faster and because they allow use of the system for other tasks while field solvers are running.
2 GB RAM (more is desirable; a max of 3 GB RAM is accessible on 32-bit Windows or Linux
4 GB or more is desirable on 64-bit operating systems
Page file size should be set to twice the RAM size
2.5 GB of disk space for installation
Minimum 5 GB free disk space for operation, more is recommended
Graphics card or sub-system
- Support for OpenGL Version 1.2 or higher
- Support for DirectX 9
- Discrete (as opposed to integrated) graphics with a minimum of 128 MB dedicated memory is recommended.
- NVIDIA chip sets are recommended for Windows and Linux systems. ATI chip sets may be acceptable for Windows systems.
- Up-to-date driver software

Architect3D system requirements are the same as for CoventorWare.

Supported Operating Systems, SEMulator3D 2013

Supported Operating Systems, SEMulator3D Reader 2013

Hardware

Intel Pentium 4 class or newer, or AMD X86-compatible CPU
- minimum 2 GHz, faster is recommended
- minimum 1 MB L2 cache, more is recommended
- Multi-core processors are recommended because the modeling engine will build 3D models faster.
2 GB RAM (more is desirable)
150 MB of disk space for installation
Minimum 5 GB free disk space for operation, more is recommended
SEMulator3D Viewer and SEMulator3D Reader require graphics acceleration hardware.
- Graphics hardware must support OpenGL version 1.4 or higher
- NVIDIA-based graphics hardware is preferred due to better support for OpenGL
- Discrete (as opposed to integrated) graphics with a minimum of 256 MB dedicated memory is preferred.
- Up-to-date driver software
- Display set to 1024 x 768 minimum resolution, 32-bit color
- Note: Due to lack of support for graphics hardware, SEMulator3D Viewer and SEMulator3D Reader will not function correctly over Windows Remote Desktop.