2.1 System Requirements

This section provides information on supported operating systems, system memory requirements, and other recommendations.

2.1.1 Supported Operating Systems

Libero SoC Design Suite supports the following 64-bit operating systems:

  • Microsoft® Windows 10.0 and Windows 11.0
  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.0-8.10, AlmaLinux® 8.3-8.10
  • Ubuntu® 20.04.6 LTS
  • SUSE™ Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
Attention: Libero SoC v2024.1 is the last release to support RHEL 7.x, CentOS™ 7.x, CentOS 8.x, OpenSUSE 42.3, and Ubuntu LTS 18.04.x operating systems. Libero SoC v204.2 and later versions will no longer support these operating systems.
Attention: Siemens ModelSim Pro does not directly support the Ubuntu platform. However, users can successfully install and run ModelSim Pro and QuestaSim Pro ME on Ubuntu by installing the necessary libraries. Libero provides the script check_linux_req.sh to install required system packages for Ubuntu.
Attention: Libero SoC design suite has been tested on x86 and x64 processor-based machines only.

2.1.2 System Memory Recommendations

A minimum of 16 GB of Random-Access Memory (RAM) is recommended.