Support & Downloads
Support and Downloads
for your Silvaco license
Help for teams running Silvaco tools or still evaluating them, from application engineers who stay on a problem until it’s fixed.
What are you here to do?
Download software
- Portal account needed
Installers and updates for every tool on your license.
Documentation
- Portal account needed
User manuals and reference guides, by tool and by release.
Installation
Install and register on Linux or Windows, license server included.
Latest release
The 2025 Baseline, with the current version of each tool.
Licensing
Silvaco license types, lease terms, and what the fee covers.
Platform support
Which operating systems each tool runs on.
Raise an issue
- Portal account needed
Open a ticket, add notes as it moves, close it when it's fixed.
Your account
Register for the support portal, or sign in.
Which tool is yours?
Pick it to go straight to its current version and the systems it runs on.
Downloads
Your software comes from
the support portal
You download Silvaco software from the support portal, license-manager builds included.
Registering costs nothing. The portal also holds software requests, foundry-specific PDKs, free
demo PDKs, white papers and Simulation Standard back issues.
Still evaluating? The application engineer running your evaluation arranges the download with you,
since no trial build is published.
Buying a license is a conversation with your regional Silvaco office.
Your Silvaco license, from lease terms to install
Licence types
Time-Based Licensing
Leases run 1, 2 or 3 years, on server-based floating licenses only. Product updates and technical support come in the fee.
Victory Omni License
One fixed annual fee opens every Silvaco TCAD framework in 2D or 3D, Victory Process, Victory Device and Victory Mesh among them. You run one tool at a time. Interactive Tools sit outside the license. Maintenance sits inside.
Academic
The EDA Academic Suite carries the licenses needed to learn the essential functions of a commercial EDA design flow. The TCAD Academic Omni License opens Silvaco’s TCAD tools on a single license. More than 200 universities teach and research on them.
The licence server
Your license server hands Time-Based licenses out to any workstation or compute server on your local or wide area network. It runs the Silvaco Floating License Manager or FlexLM, your choice.
SFLM
7.4.16.R
FlexLM
11.19.2.R
A virtual machine can't act as your license server.
Your server’s CodeName is its machine ID: a string beginning 0SSMID, shown at http://[servername]:3162. Note it down now. Every support ticket asks for it.
Virtual machines are not supported as licence servers.
Installation and supported platforms
The installation guide covers setup and registration on Linux and Windows. Check the hardware requirements before you start.
2025 Baseline, 64-bit throughout
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8 and 9
CentOS 7
Rocky Linux 8 and 9
Jivaro, PEX Diff, PEX Link and Viso don’t run on Linux 9. The same four also run on SUSE 15 SP6.
On Linux, install these packages as root first: glibc.i686, libgcc.i686, libstdc++.i686, zlib.i686, xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi.noarch and xorg-x11-fonts-misc.noarch.
Current versions: the 2025 Baseline
The 2025 Baseline is the current release, with new features and quality and interface fixes across
the portfolio. Filter by product line or platform, or search by name.
| PRODUCT | PRODUCT LINE | VERSION | LINUX | WINDOWS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victory Process | TCAD | 8.5.7.9 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Victory Mesh | TCAD | 12.3.0.1 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Victory Device | TCAD | 2.0.7.1 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Victory Atomic | TCAD | 12.3.0.1 | ✓ | - |
| Victory Box | TCAD | 1.4.8.1 | ✓ | - |
| Victory Visual | TCAD | 2.3.9.2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Victory Analytics | TCAD | 5.2.1.8 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Victory DoE | TCAD | 1.1.6.8 | ✓ | - |
| Victory Extract | TCAD | 1.7.0 | ✓ | - |
| DeckBuild | TCAD | 5.2.4.8 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gateway | EDA IC Design | 2.4.0.7.0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| SmartSpice Includes HD/AI Pro | EDA IC Design | 5.2.9.2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| SmartView | EDA IC Design | 3.4.0.7.1 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Expert | EDA IC Design | 5.2.0.7.8 | ✓ | ✓ |
| SmartTools DRC, LVS and PEX | EDA IC Design | 1.2.4.0.2 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hspice | EDA IC Design | 4.2.0.7.0 | ✓ | - |
| Utmost IV | EDA IC Design | 2.2.4.0.8 | ✓ | - |
| Cello | Cello | 2024.1.8.8 | ✓ | - |
| Viola | Viola | 2024.0.0.1 | ✓ | - |
| Varman | Varman | 2023.1.3.8 | ✓ | - |
| Jivaro Netlist to PEX setup tool | Jivaro | 2025.1.2.5 | ✓ | - |
| PEX DIVA Next Unix 9 | PEX Certify | 2025.1.1.0 | ✓ | - |
| PEX Link Next Unix 9 | PEX Certify | 2025.1.1.0 | ✓ | - |
| Visio Net 8.0, 8.9.4 supports S1M PEX | PEX Certify | 2025.1.1.0 | ✓ | - |
| SFLM Silvaco Floating License Manager | Licensing | 7.4.1.6 | ✓ | ✓ |
| FlexLM | Licensing | 11.19.0.2 | ✓ | ✓ |
✓ Supported * Not supported on Linux 9 ** Also runs on SUSE 15 SP6.
Utilities come with every package. Silvaco may revise versions and platforms during the year.
Manuals, and what you can read without logging in
Tool manuals
User manuals and reference guides, filed by tool and by release version, so the manual you open matches the build you run.
In the support portalPortal account needed
Technical library and training
Application examples, papers, white papers and the Simulation Standard journal. No login, no form. A worked example often answers a modeling question faster than the manual does.
Install and registration
The installation guide covers both platforms, the licence server setup and the registration step, and is published openly.
Open · no account needed
Who picks up your question
You hold a Silvaco license
Silvaco’s application engineers answer through tickets in the support portal. You need a current maintenance contract to get in.
You're in India, Malaysia, Pakistan or the Middle East
Silvaco sells through distributors in these territories: Cognitive Design Technology (CDT) in India, and IC Microsystems in Malaysia, Pakistan and the Middle East.
You're evaluating
Ask the application engineer running your evaluation. They built it around your case, so they already know the details.
Silvaco support contacts
None of these needs a login.
Technical support, licensed customers
Through the customer portal, which tracks the case and
routes it to the engineers for your tool.
Pricing, new licenses and evaluations
Your regional Silvaco office. Silvaco has 12 offices worldwide, and every address and phone number is published.
Find your office
Silvaco support terms, answered
What does a Silvaco license include?
Time-Based Licensing bundles product updates and technical support into the lease, so you don't buy either separately. The Victory Omni License's annual fee includes software maintenance.
How do I open a Silvaco support ticket?
Sign in to the support portal and log a ticket naming the product, the version, how severe it is and the steps that reproduce it. You'll need your license server's CodeName, and your maintenance contract has to be current. Add notes or close the ticket yourself whenever you like.
Are Silvaco licenses node-locked or floating?
Floating only. One license server, running SFLM or FlexLM, supplies every seat on your network. That server can't be a virtual machine.
Can I get a free trial of Silvaco software?
No self-serve trial is published. Instead, an application engineer runs a licensed evaluation with you, on your own hardware and device data. The published Silvaco Evaluation License Agreement sets its terms.
Is there an academic license?
Yes, two. The EDA Academic Suite is built for teaching a full EDA design flow. For TCAD teaching and research, the TCAD Academic Omni License covers every Silvaco TCAD tool for a fixed yearly fee. The University Program handles academic requests, not commercial sales.
Where do I find older releases?
Silvaco keeps separate pages for archived software releases and for end-of-life products. Older builds keep their manuals in the support portal too.
Does Silvaco offer interface IP, and how is it supported?
Yes. Silvaco Design IP includes Mixel's MIPI interface IP: D-PHY, C-PHY, CSI-2 and DSI. It's proven in silicon at nine foundries, on twelve process nodes. Your first year of support is included in the IP license. The Design IP team handles it, not the software support portal.