Research Subscription

The subscription provides:

• Access to all CAD tools for research use (licensing restrictions may apply).
• Unlimited number of research team users (supervised students, research assistants, and post-docs) attached to a professors’ subscription.
• Unlimited use of Cadence, Siemens, Synopsys and Xilinx.
• Other CAD tools for microsystems and nanotechnology research use.
  • With access to Institution Research Plus Subscription:
    • Unlimited access to time-shared licenses.
  • Without access to an Institution Subscription:
    • Access to time-shared licenses is capped at five concurrent use instances per tool from the subscriber’s research team. e.g., 5 concurrent use instances of Keysight ADS; or 2 concurrent use instances of COMSOL + 1 Siemens PADS Pro + 5 Keysight ADS. Both are valid use cases.
    • Additional access to CAD can be purchased - $1000 for five additional concurrent use instances per tool.
• Subscriber pricing on over 20 fabrication service options, short-term equipment loans, and training courses.
• Access to cloud-based and high-performance computing resources, technical support and training materials.