Cloud native EDA tools & pre-optimized hardware platforms
This guide lists the Platinum and Gold platforms supported by the Synopsys A-Foundation Releases 2007.09, 2007.12, 2008.03. A platform consists of the computer architecture and the operating system version. Not all Synopsys products are available on every platform listed below. For an exact listing of platform availability for each Synopsys product, consult the Synopsys Release Library at https://solvnet.synopsys.com/ReleaseLibrary.
Use the following index to jump directly to the A-Foundation Operating System and Patch recommendations:
A Baseline Operating System is the OS version that Synopsys products are compiled and tested on. A Binary Compatible Operating System is an OS version that has been qualified for the baseline build of Synopsys products through testing. Binary compatibility does not specify that all Synopsys products are tested on all binary compatible platforms. For an exact listing of binary compatible platform availability for each Synopsys product, consult the Synopsys Release Library at https://solvnet.synopsys.com/ReleaseLibrary.
Recommended run-time patches for each platform are also presented in this guide. Synopsys employs a Qualified System Configuration (QSC) for each release foundation. The baseline patch versions of this QSC are published below. Platform vendors are continuously releasing operating system patch updates so in some cases the baseline patch versions we specify are no longer available from the vendor. The extensive testing we perform with every release has verified that Synopsys products are not sensitive to patch versions. We therefore recommend that systems be configured with these baseline patches or the latest versions of these patches recommended by the platform vendor.
Sun SPARC Solaris 32-bit and 64-bit
Baseline Operating System: Solaris 9
Binary Compatible Operating System: Solaris 10
X86 (IA-32) Linux 32-bit
Baseline Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (AS, ES, WS)
Binary Compatible Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 (AS, ES, WS)
NOTE: The PAE kernel does not allow 32-bit processes to access as much memory as hugemem.
X86 (IA-32) 32-bit - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Baseline Operating System: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 9 (SLES9)
Binary Compatible Operating System: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 10 (SLES10)
Nanoism, Star-RCXT, HSPICE, Aurora, and XA Option require the compat-g77 fortran package which is no longer included with SLES10. This package is currently available for OpenSUSE 10. Novell suggests users who require this package to obtain and install the compat-g77 package from the free OpenSUSE 10 distribution. The compat-g77 package will be included in the SLES10 SDK SP1 distribution.
X86_64 Linux 64-bit- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Baseline Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (AS, ES, WS)
Binary Compatible Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5(AS, ES, WS)
x86_64 Linux 64-bit - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Baseline Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (AS, ES, WS)
Binary Compatible Operating System: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version 10 (SLES10)
Nanoism, Star-RCXT, HSPICE, Aurora, and XA Option require the compat-g77 fortran package which is no longer included with SLES10. This package is currently available for OpenSUSE 10. Novell suggests users who require this package to obtain and install the compat-g77 package from the free OpenSUSE 10 distribution. The compat-g77 package will be included in the SLES10 SDK SP1 distribution.
X86 Microsoft Windows 2000
Baseline Operating System: Windows 2000
X86 Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Baseline Operating System: Windows XP Professional v2002
IBM RS6000 AIX 32-bit & 64-bit
Baseline Operating System: AIX 5.3