Moreover if you're using another application with a FlexNet license manager, you'll get a license conflict with ModelSim. Use the current version - at the moment v10 SP2 - with node locked license and pay attention to have about 4 GB free on disk c:, even if you install Libero on d: or wherever, as the installer is bullshit. So if you're using a 32-bit version of Windows 7 or XP: congratulations! You probably won't have too much problems with Libero.

And the synthesis doesn't need much time. For this special case you could use post-synthesis/-layout simulation even in the free version. You won't need the purchase version unless you need for any incomprehensible reason to simulate a mixed mode design (which means with Verilog and VHDL) pre synthesis. You can get as many free licenses as you want and after one year you can renew them for free. Now the positive about Libero: it's free. And after asking you innumerable senseless questions and results of test processes, the support member just closes its case without telling you and fills out the feedback survey on his own. The support team consists of a few stupid, lazy Indians, who make idiotic suggestions, don't answer your questions and try hard to find a silly reason for explaining you, why Microsemi can't give you any support. So my advice: never contact the support team! I did this several times with detailed description of the problems and got nothing except of a big waste of time. Wow, great advice! So on Linux you can do FPGA design just for fun or what? I hope that sometime there will also be a FlashPro for Linux. They advise you to install Windows to flash your FPGA.

According to the support team it isn't planed to be offered anytime. By the way in the 'Linux' version, which is in deed just offered as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 - 5.6 version, it doesn't exist at all. A bug, which is still not fixed, is that the flash programming tool FlashPro doesn't work on 64-bit systems, neither on Windows XP nor on Windows 7. I started with Libero v9.1 on Windows XP and recognized that it's a beta version as well as v10 and v10 with service pack 1 as they are hardly tested. So you can hopefully save some time through this description. I began with FPGA design a few months ago and it took me as long to get Libero working on Fedora 16 Linux. This is a description for developers like me, who have to do FPGA design on Actel / Microsemi chips with Libero.

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