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System Requirements for Libero IDE and other Actel Software

Supported Platforms

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Actel tests software on the specific operating systems shown in the chart below and is committed to fix any problems encountered by customers on these supported operating systems. We cannot guarantee that Actel and OEM software will run on untested operating systems or versions.

Operating Systems1 Libero IDE Tools FlashPro Firmware Catalog SoftConsole
Microsoft Windows - U.S. Version
Windows 7 Professional YES YES3,4 YES YES
Windows Vista Business YES YES3,4 YES YES
Windows XP Pro SP3 (cumulative) YES YES2,4 YES YES
RedHat Enterprise Linux
RHEL 5 (Tikanga) (5.1 through 5.6) YES N/A N/A N/A

Notes:

  1. All tools are tested on both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.
  2. FlashPro3 & FlashPro4 programmers connected to Windows XP x64 64-bit systems require the driver supported by Libero IDE v8.6 SP1 or FlashPro v8.6 SP1 or later.
  3. Libero IDE v9.0 SP1 and FlashPro v9.0 SP1 introduced x64 64-bit support for Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.
  4. Do not install the FlashPro/FlashPro Lite parallel port driver on any Windows x64 systems.

Minimum System Requirements

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Software/Platform Processor File System Disk Space* RAM Other
Libero IDE Windows 1.4 GHz Pentium NTFS,
FAT32		 4 GB See charts below DVD ROM,
HTML browser,
1024x768 resolution
Libero IDE Linux 1.4 GHz Pentium N/A 4 GB See charts below HTML browser,
1024x768 resolution
Libero SA Windows 1.4 GHz Pentium NTFS,
FAT32		 1.5 GB See charts below HTML browser,
1024x768 resolution
Libero SA Linux 1.4 GHz Pentium N/A 1.5 GB See charts below HTML browser,
1024x768 resolution
SoftConsole 1.0 GHz Pentium NTFS,
FAT32		 400 MB 128 MB HTML browser,
1024x768 resolution
FlashPro Standalone 0.450 GHz Pentium NTFS,
FAT32		 120 MB 256 MB HTML browser,
1024x768 resolution

* Maximum disk space for installation, assuming that all family device libraries are installed.

Recommended Memory Requirements

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IGLOO Series
Device RAM Virtual Memory
AGL015, AGL030, AGL060, AGL125,
AGLN010, AGLN015, AGLN020, AGLN030, AGLN060, AGLN125,
AGLP030, AGLP060, AGLP125 		256 MB 512 MB
AGL250, M1AGL250, AGL400, AGLN250 384 MB 768 MB
AGL600, M1AGL600, AGLE600 512 MB 1 GB
AGL1000, M1AGL1000 1 GB 2 GB
AGLE3000 3 GB* 4 GB
ProASIC3 Series
Device RAM Virtual Memory
A3P030, A3P060, A3P125,
A3PN010, A3PN015, A3PN020, A3PN030, A3PN060, A3PN125 		256 MB 512 MB
A3P250, M1A3P250, A3P400, M1A3P400, A3PN250, A3P250L 384 MB 768 MB
A3P600, A3PE600, M1A3PE600, A3P600L, A3PE600L 512 MB 1 GB
A3P1000, M1A3P1000, M7A3P1000, A3PE1500, M1A3PE1500,
A3P1000L		 1 GB 2 GB
A3PE3000, M1A3PE3000, A3P3000L, A3PE3000L 3 GB* 4 GB
SmartFusion
Device RAM Virtual Memory
A2F200 384 MB 768 MB
A2F500 512 MB 1 GB
Fusion
Device RAM Virtual Memory
AFS090 256 MB 512 MB
AFS250 384 MB 768 MB
AFS600, M1AFS600, M7AFS600 512 MB 1 GB
AFS1500, M1AFS1500, M7AFS1500 1 GB 2 GB
RTAX-S and RTAX-DSP
Device RAM Virtual Memory
RTAX250S 256 MB 512 MB
RTAX1000S 384 MB 768 MB
RTAX2000S, RTAX2000D 768 MB 1.5 GB
RTAX4000S, RTAX4000D 3 GB* 4 GB
Axcelerator
Device RAM Virtual Memory
AX125, AX250, AX500 256 MB 512 MB
AX1000 384 MB 768 MB
AX2000 768 MB 1.5 GB
SX-A / eX / MX
Device RAM Virtual Memory
All devices 256 MB 512 MB
ProASICPLUS
Device RAM Virtual Memory
APA075, APA150 256 MB 512 MB
APA300, APA450 384 MB 768 MB
APA600 512 MB 1 GB
APA750 768 MB 1.5 GB
APA1000 1 GB 2 GB

* Use the following procedure to increase the virtual address space that is available to the Windows application to 3 GB.

  • Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows server 2008
    • Execute: bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVa 3072
  • Windows XP, Windows server 2003
    • Add the /3GB switch to the Boot.ini file.

More information can be found from Microsoft Support http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q171793.