Software licensing: Silvaco license options
Silvaco license options cover tools in both AI-Driven Design and AI-Driven Manufacturing, and they can be tailored to your team’s needs. Talk them through with our sales team before you commit.
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Silvaco license questions
How is Silvaco software licensed?
Every Silvaco license is either commercial or academic. Companies pick from two models. Time-Based Licensing leases floating licenses on one-, two- or three-year terms, served from your own license server. The Victory Omni License gives you Silvaco TCAD for a fixed annual fee. Universities have an academic track of their own for teaching and research.
What is the Victory Omni License?
It’s a single annual license that lets your engineers run any Silvaco TCAD framework, one tool at a time. The fee is fixed, and it covers 2D or 3D work at every company site within your purchasing region. Maintenance comes with it. Interactive Tools are the one part of TCAD it leaves out.
What is included in a time-based license?
A lease of one, two or three years on industry-standard terms, as floating licenses only. Your license server shares them across the machines on your network, so a seat goes wherever the work is. The lease fee already pays for product updates and technical support.
Is academic licensing available?
Yes, for accredited universities that grant degrees. Research runs on low-cost licenses, while teaching gets curriculum packages that cover every student in a class with one license. The two bundles are the TCAD Academic Omni License and the EDA Academic Suite. Institutions in the Americas apply to academicsales@silvaco.com, and those elsewhere through their local Silvaco office.
Does the license fee include support and updates?
Yes for Time-Based Licensing, where updates and technical support are built into the lease fee. The Victory Omni License comes with software maintenance, and your regional sales team will confirm exactly what that covers on your contract. Academic licenses include software updates, but Silvaco gives them no technical support.
Can the Omni License be combined with individual tool licenses?
Yes. Keep term-based licenses for the tools and modules your team runs hardest, and let the Victory Omni License cover the rest of TCAD alongside them. You get broad access and dedicated seats at once. Your Silvaco sales team works out the split with you, project by project.