3.1 System Requirements

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

3.1.1 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®/CentOS™ 7.x and Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 8.0-8.2
  • OpenSUSE® Leap 42.3 (SLES 12.3 equivalent)
  • Ubuntu® 18.04 LTS and 20.04.3 LTS
Attention: Starting from Libero SoC v2024.2, the following operating systems will no longer be supported:
  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®/CentOS™ 7.x
  • CentOS 8.x
  • OpenSUSE® 12 SP3
  • Ubuntu® 18.04.x LTS
If you are using any of these operating systems, please note that Libero SoC v2024.1 is the last release that supports them.

Support for the following operating systems has ceased. For more information, see PDN20028 and PDN21004:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 6.x
  • CentOS 8.0-8.2
  • Microsoft Windows 7
Important: Siemens ModelSim Pro does not directly support the Ubuntu platform. FlashPro5 programmer is not supported with Ubuntu.

3.1.2 System Memory Recommendations

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