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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.

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Two business units

Check the PDK before you check anything else

A tool that doesn’t support your fab is no use to you, however good it is elsewhere. Silvaco tools carry PDK support across foundries including ams AG, Tower Semiconductor and X-FAB. Looking for MIPI PHY node coverage? That sits on the Design IP pages, in its own format.

Open the PDK table See supported foundries and partners

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.

    See licensing options

  • 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.

    Read the installation guide

  • Documentation

    Manuals, worked examples, and release notes for every tool family.

    Browse documentation

  • Support portal

    Open a support case and track it through Support and Downloads.

    Go to 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.

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Questions buyers ask before an evaluation

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yes. Silvaco’s Design IP covers MIPI and interface protocol families including D-PHY, C-PHY, CSI-2, and DSI, silicon-proven on 13 nodes at 9 foundries. The Mixel team has been building MIPI PHYs since 1998, and mixel.com stays the detailed reference for that portfolio.

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.

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.