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If a 64-bit Linux machine is not available, you can install VirtualBox with CentOS 7 or CentOS 8 to use Impulse

Note

WSL on Windows is not supported yet.

Software

Running Impulse requires Python 3.6 installed on a Linux 64-bit machine.

Note

Other Python versions are not supported yet.

Download NanoXplore Tools

Follow the steps below to download and unpack NanoXplore tools

  1. Visit Support NanoXplore-download and sign-in or register to download:

    • NXLMD => NXLMD-2.12-linux.tar.gz

    • Impulse => nxdesignsuite-version-.tar.gz

    • NxBase2 => NxBase2-2.5.3.tar.bz2

  2. Save Impulse tools to your ~/Downloads folder or a location of your choice

  3. Create a New Folder named NanoXplore in the /opt directory

  4. Unpack your downloaded NanoXplore tool directly to /opt/NanoXplore

  5. Repeat this process for each NanoXplore tool

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To download and install the NanoXplore License Manager Daemon (NXLMD), please refer to the instructions in the License Daemon guide.

Installation

Below the main steps to setup and install each NanoXplore tool:

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  1. Before install Impulse, check that Python 3.6 is installed with below command:

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     $> which python3

    If Pyhton3 is installed you will see the following line:

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    $> /usr/bin/python3

  2. If Python3 is not installed, run the following command:

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    $> sudo yum install python3

  3. To install Impulse, update ~/.bashrc file with below instruction:

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    export PATH=/opt/NanoXplore/impulse-/bin:$PATH

    Check that ~/.bashrc updating has been taken into account with below command:

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    $> source ~/.bashrc”

  4. Check that Impulse is installed with below commands:

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    $> which impulse

    The result of this command must be the following

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    $> /opt/NanoXplore/impulse-version/bin/impulse

  5. Check Impulse is working as expected by running the following command:

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    $> impulse --version

The result should display as follows:

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How to Install NxBase2

  1. Navigate to the NanoXplore tools directory:

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    $> cd /opt/NanoXplore

  2. Create a new folder named NxBase2-2.5.3:

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    $> sudo mkdir NxBase2-2.5.3

  3. Extract the NxBase2 TAR archive to the /opt/NanoXplore folder:

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    $> sudo tar xvf NxBase2-2.5.3.tar.bz2 -C ./NxBase2-2.5.3

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