You might need to convert the BIN files to ISO. Try CCD2ISO. Then you end up with images.dir/fs.N files Most are gzipped tarballs, with fs.0 being some metadata check of sorts. It looks like this would be loaded by, SoftLoad, but it is not, not on QEMU on Linux at least. Rename them. The file fs.0 creates a tmp/ with empty files, whose names are the metadata. for i in {0..N}; do mv "fs.$i" "fs.$i.tar.gz"; done then for i in *.tar.gz; do tar xzvf "$i"; done This will extract the files, but some are binary files. Not multipart tarballs, just apparently random binary data. Binwalk fails to identify them. Once you extract the tarballs you get the Cadence applications, but no clues on installation. A source script is provided with some initial env vars, and the license file Copy cadence.lic to your $CDS_ROOT/share/license/license.dat export LM_LICENSE_FILE=$CDS_ROOT/share/license/license.dat and serve the licenses with the included $CDS_ROOT/tools/bin/lmgrd the start.sh script provides a baseline. Starting dfII applications might require setting X permissions with: xhost +