Description
Riviera is a state-of-the-art software for evaluation and simulation FPGA and ASIC chips and SoC devices. The program extends advanced HDL simulation capabilities and supports the most advanced evaluation methodologies such as functional overlay, OVM, UVM, hardware acceleration, and prototype. Riviera is a new generation of engineering tools, previously released as Riviera-Classic and now available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Thanks to an efficient simulator engine, advanced debugging capabilities at different abstraction levels, and support for the latest hardware description languages and standard evaluation libraries, it ensures full automation of the design, modeling, and simulation of these chips.
Features and characteristics of the Riviera:
- High-level simulator with optimized and efficient algorithms
- Supports VHDL, Verilog, SystemC simulation languages and their combined use
- Ability to simulate the most complex systems
- Support for the latest standard libraries including Universal Evaluation Methodology or UVM
- Smoothing in all abstract layers
- UVM Toolbox
- Class display and UVM graph
- Comprehensive assessment using SVA and PSL methods
- And…
required system
Single-core vs. Dual or multi-core
Riviera-PRO is a multi-threaded application, so choosing a multi-core processor is better than a single-core processor.
The effect of using a multi-core processor would be most obvious in interactive work with the Riviera-PRO GUI during simulation (the simulation occupies one core processor, while the GUI operations run on the other).
In addition, the VHDL compiler uses multi-core processors to reduce compilation time.
Even if you’re not scrolling through the waveform or changing the code while the simulation is running, the multi-core processor makes your other applications more responsive in the background while the simulation is running.
Frequency and CPU cache size
Usually the approach here is more is better.
Note that a larger CPU cache has a positive effect on performance.
CPU Architecture – 32 vs. 64 bits
The processor architecture only matters if Riviera-PRO needs to allocate several gigabytes of RAM to run your design.
64-bit architecture allows 4 GB of RAM even for 32-bit applications (eg Riviera-PRO on Windows)
32-bit architecture is limited to 2 GB on Windows and Linux, which can be increased to 3 GB if desired. So, if your design simulation does not require more than 2GB of RAM, then you are free to choose any CPU architecture.
Graphics cards
No specific recommendations here, but the faster the card, the more responsive GUI actions like Waveform (browsing large files, zooming, etc.) will be.
ram size
A 32-bit OS recommends at least 3 GB of RAM.
For a 64-bit operating system, we recommend 4 GB or more.
Note that these recommendations are considered for running one Riviera-PRO simulation on a machine at a time. If you plan to run more than one simulation at a time, multiply the above numbers accordingly.
32-bit OS vs. 64-bit OS
The same recommendations apply to choosing a processor architecture.
Pictures
installation manual
Read the Readme.txt file in the Crack folder.
The 2014 64-bit version could not be run due to a crack issue and was removed. Use the 32-bit version.
Note. The software does not run in a virtual environment.
2014 32-bit version installed and successfully activated on September 1, 2022 Windows 11 64-bit version.
Download link
Download Aldec_Riviera-PRO_2014.06_x86
Download Aldec_Riviera-PRO_2014.06_Linux
File password(s): free download software
size
32-bit version: 270 MB
Linux version: 471 MB