Products & Workflows Hub
EDA software, TCAD, and
design IP from Silvaco
Silvaco’s EDA software and simulation tools run in two lines: TCAD, Lithography, Plasma, and
Photonics on the manufacturing side; Circuit Simulation, Analog and Custom IC,
and Design IP on the design side.
Two business units
Turn multiphysics simulation into engineering intelligence for faster, better-informed decisions.
Design and verify transistor-level circuits. License silicon-
proven interface IP, Mixel’s MIPI portfolio included, instead
of building your own.
Check the PDK before you
check anything else
AMS
- AC18 (180nm)
- S35 (350nm)
TOWER SEMICONDUCTOR
- CA13 (130nm)
- SBC13 (130nm)
- C*18 (180nm)
- SBC18 (180nm)
- TS18 (180nm)
- BCD25 (250nm)
- CA25 (250nm)
- SBC35 (350nm)
XFAB
- X*018 (180nm)
- X*035 (350nm)
- CX06 (600nm)
YITOA Micro Technology
- YITOA Micro Technology
Looking for MIPI PHY node coverage? That sits on the Design IP pages, in its own format.
Named results, not a logo wall
Japan Display, Inc.
Display
Silvaco’s tools and expertise in display technology helps us create cutting-edge products and technologies, spanning automotive applications, transparent displays, wearable devices, virtual reality headsets, and next-generation OLED.
indie Semiconductor
Automotive Semiconductor
We needed a MIPI IP provider that could support our strict automotive requirements to further our radar portfolio and enable efficient and scalable ADAS architecture solutions.
Micron Technology
Logic and Memory
Silvaco’s AI and digital twin solution is enabling us to accelerate our groundbreaking advancements in memory and storage.
SemiQ
Power Devices
With Silvaco’s prompt and expert technical support, and unique tool features specifically tailored for power devices design, we were able to quickly adopt new capabilities, such as oxidation simulation, to improve our understanding of next generation devices.
Trixel
(Analog and Custom IC)
Swapped a patchwork of point tools for one extraction flow on TFT sensors, consistent run to run.
SK Hynix
Analog and Custom IC
Extraction capacity and performance work supported HBM4E signoff.
Micron
Analog and Custom IC
A multiyear agreement covering sign-off accepted verification at production nodes.
Sharp
TCAD
Deputy General Manager Noboru Matsuda has publicly endorsed the OLED design and development support Silvaco provides.
Licensing, installation, and support
Four answers people usually have to email for.
Licensing options
Which license models Silvaco offers, and which one fits how your team works. Time-Based Licensing runs on floating licenses, leased for one, two or three years.
Installation and OS support
Supported operating systems, hardware requirements, and the installation guide, in one place. Silvaco runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Rocky Linux and Windows Professional, all 64-bit.
Documentation
Manuals, worked examples, and release notes for every tool family.
Support portal
Open a support case and track it through Support and Downloads.
Licensing interface IP works differently. The Design IP pages carry that contact path.
We'll tell you when a tool isn't right
Most evaluations stall on a question no datasheet answers:
does this run on my node, in my flow, on my schedule? Ask our
engineers before you spend an evaluation cycle finding out.
Three weeks into a trial is the expensive place to learn it.
Questions buyers ask before an evaluation
What is EDA software?
EDA software, or electronic design automation software, is the set of tools engineers use to design, simulate, verify, and prepare an integrated circuit for manufacture. It spans schematic capture, circuit simulation, layout, parasitic extraction, and physical verification. Silvaco builds tools across that range, plus the TCAD simulation that sits upstream of it.
What EDA software does Silvaco offer?
Silvaco’s tools split into two business units: AI-Driven Manufacturing for process and device work, and AI-Driven Design for circuit design, verification, and licensed interface IP. Each hub page lists the families under it and links through to the individual products.
Which foundry PDKs do Silvaco tools support?
Silvaco publishes a PDK table listing supported foundries and process nodes, including ams AG, Tower Semiconductor and X-FAB. If your fab isn’t on it, ask. MIPI PHY node coverage sits separately, on the Design IP pages.
Is TCAD the same thing as Silvaco's EDA tools?
No. TCAD simulates the process and the device physics: what happens in the fab and inside the transistor. The EDA tools work a level above that, on circuits and layout. Both sit under Products & Workflows, so you can see the full range from one page.
Does Silvaco offer interface IP?
Yes. Silvaco’s Design IP covers MIPI and interface protocol families including D-PHY, C-PHY, CSI-2, and DSI, silicon-proven on twelve process nodes, across nine foundries. The Mixel team has been building MIPI PHYs since 1998, and mixel.com stays the detailed reference for that portfolio.
How is Silvaco EDA software licensed?
Commercial licenses are Time-Based (floating, on one-, two- or three-year leases) or Victory Omni (one annual license for TCAD software except Interactive Tools). Academic and research users have a separate track: more than 200 universities run Silvaco tools under it. Interface IP is licensed through the Design IP team rather than as a standard software license.
Are Atlas and Athena still available?
Both are retired. Each has a succession page naming the Victory tool that replaced it, and the old URLs redirect there, so old bookmarks still land somewhere useful.