System Requirements

In this topic:

Operating System

  • Windows 11 Home, Pro (including variants) and Enterprise
  • Windows 10 Home, Pro and Enterprise - 64 bit editions

Hardware

SIMetrix will run satisfactorily on any system that meets all the following requirements:

  1. The system is running one of supported operating systems listed above
  2. The system meets the minimum hardware requirement for the operating system
  3. The processor complies with one of the following
    1. 4th Generation or later Intel Core i3, i5, i7 or i9 (Haswell micro-architecture or later)
    2. Intel Xeon E3, E5, E7 v3 or any later Xeon model (Haswell micro-architecture or later)
    3. AMD processor using the Piledriver micro-architecture or later
    Systems manufactured in 2015 or later are likely to meet this specification

Recommended System

If you regularly run large circuit simulations or long runs on smaller circuits, we recommend investing in the most powerful CPU available. A large RAM system can be useful as this will allow caching of simulation data. This will speed up plotting results if a large amount of data is generated. The data is stored to disk in an efficient manner and therefore substantial RAM is not essential unless the circuits being simulated are very large indeed.

Multi-core Processors

SIMetrix can exploit multiple core CPUs in a number of ways and will benefit from multiple core processors. Note, however, that you will require a SIMetrix Pro or SIMetrix Elite license to be able to use the multiple core features. Note also that SIMetrix cannot effectively use Hyper-threading.

For more information, see the following sections:

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