CST STUDIO SUITE LICENSING GUIDE 2016 CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® | CST EM STUDIO® | CST PARTICLE STUDIO® CST PARTICLE STUDIO® | CST CABLE STUDIO® | CST EMC STUDIO® CST PCB STUDIO® | CST MPHYSICS® STUDIO | CST DESIGN STUDIO™ This guide explains what licensing options exist and helps to choose the license configuration that fits best your needs. The described options and licensing policy are subject to change. Our standard terms & conditions are available at https://www.CST.com/Company/Terms. January-2016
This guide explains what licensing options exist and helps to choose the license confi guration that fi ts best your needs. The described options and licensing policy are subject to change. Our standard terms & conditions are available at https://www.CST.com/Company/Terms.
January-2016
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THE CST® STUDIO SUITE® PRODUCT FAMILY
CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® (CST MWS): our industry-leading tool for the fast and accurate simulation of high frequency devices. Applications areas include micro-waves & RF, optical applications, EDA/electronics and EMC/EMI.
CST EM STUDIO® (CST EMS): for the design and analysis of static and low frequency EM applications such as motors, sensors, actuators, transformers and shielding enclosures.
CST PARTICLE STUDIO® (CST PS): a specialized product dedicated to the fully consistent simulation of free-moving charged particles. Applications include elec-tron guns, traveling wave tubes, magnetrons and wakefields.
CST CABLE STUDIO® (CST CS): for signal integrity and EMC/EMI analysis of cables and cable harnesses.
CST PCB STUDIO® (CST PCBS): for the simulation of signal and power integrity effects and EMC/EMI on printed circuit boards.
CST MPHYSICS® STUDIO (CST MPS): a multiphysics module for thermal simula-tions and mechanical stress analysis.
CST DESIGN STUDIO™ (CST DS): a versatile tool that facilitates 3D EM/circuit co-simulation, system simulation and synthesis.
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THE LICENSE SETUP
CST STUDIO SUITE represents a highly modular concept in which each STUDIO product covers a certain frequency or application range. All CST STUDIO SUITE solvers are seam-lessly integrated into a common interface. A license can be configured to the needs of each customer by making choices about the following parameters:
■ Number or Frontends, Simulation Processes, Solver Modules ■ Number of Acceleration Tokens ■ Import and Export Options ■ Multiplatform Upgrade (Windows / Linux) ■ Network Type (LAN, WAN, Node-Locked) ■ Perpetual or Limited Term license CST STUDIO SUITE – Graphical User Interface
1) NUMBER OF FRONTENDS, SIMULATION PROCESSES, AND SOLVER MODULES
The frontend provides a user with the ability to build or import a new model, define the solver settings and display results including post processing.
The number of simulation processes specifies the maximum number of simulation runs that can be performed at a time. The number of solver modules specifies how many of each solver module can be used at a time, as long as the total number of simulations does not exceed the total number of simulation processes.
Multi-window functionality: Users can use the tabs within the graphical user interface to seamlessly switch between an unlimited number of projects, regardless of the associated product, while consuming only one frontend.
Frontend blocked during simulation: When a simulation is launched on a tab, the tab stays active and the associated frontend is blocked until the simulation is completed. If a further frontend license is available, a user can switch to another tab and continue working without having to open a second design environment. A minimal CST STUDIO SUITE configuration by default always comprises two frontends and one solver process.
Product Solver Module Icon Charge
CST MWS Time Domain T Full
CST MWS Frequency Domain F Full
CST MWS Eigenmode E Full
CST MWS Integral Equation I Full
CST MWS Asymptotic A Full
CST MWS Multilayer M Full
CST MWS Filter Designer (2D) FD2D Half
CST MWS Filter Designer (3D) FD3D Half
CST CS Cable Harness CBL Full
CST PCBS Printed Circuit Board PCB Full
CST PCBS Rule Check RCK Full
CST EMS Static S Half
CST EMS Low Frequency LF Full
CST PS Tracking TRK Half
CST PS Wakefield WAK Half
CST PS Particle-in-Cell PIC Full
CST MPS Thermal TH Full
CST MPS Structural Mechanics SM Full
CST DS Circuit Simulator DS (*)
Solver module options and related charge* The DS solver module (CST DESIGN STUDIO) is always included free of charge.
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Example 1: A customer has chosen the following configuration:
■ Frontends: 3 ■ Max. simulation processes: 2 ■ Max. 2 T (Time Domain) ■ Max. 1 F (Frequency Domain) ■ Max. 1 S (Statics) ■ Max. 2 DS (Circuit)
In total up to two simulations can be performed: either 2T, or T+S, or T+F, or S+F. As the circuit solver module DS is always included at no charge, it is possible to run DS in place of one of the purchased solver modules.
2) ACCELERATION TOKEN
The ability to solve complex structures or a large number of designs can be enhanced by a variety of solver specific features. This includes parallelization on the CPU level scaling up from single CPU devices to whole cluster systems using Distributed Computing or MPI Computing on shared or distributed memory environments.
Simulation performance can be further improved for some solvers by hardware acceleration on supported GPU or Xeon Phi accelerator devices.
Customers can access all CST acceleration features by means of Acceleration Tokens without limiting themselves to a specific feature. The Acceleration Tokens can also be shared amongst all users/processes of the same license.
The number of Acceleration Tokens consumed for a simula-tion at a certain time always reflects the hardware used by this simulation. Tokens are released (partially/fully) as soon as the simulation is (partially/fully) completed. The number of required tokens is specified in the first column of the table below, e.g. 4 CPUs require 1 Acceleration Token. Thereby it doesn’t matter how the CPUs or accelerator devices used in the simulation are distributed on physical machines and which software feature is used to utilize the hardware. Cluster for MPI and/or DC
GPU Computing Unit
(Accelerator Device)
Multi CPU
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CPU Device: Microprocessor plugged into the CPU socket of a mainboard. The CPU device is the smallest unit with regards to the CST licensing scheme and a CPU device includes all CPU cores available on the device. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_socket
Accelerator Device: Additional hardware device which is attached to a computer (usually a PCI expansion card) to speed up specific computational workloads. Currently supported are certain NVIDIA GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi. The device includes all resources on the expansion card, i.e., in case of two GPUs on one card this is counted as one acceler-ator device.
Acceleration Token
CPU DevicesAccelerator
Devices
0 2 0
1 4 1
2 8 2
3 16 4
4 32 8
5 64 16
6 128 32
7 192 48
N 64 x (N - 4) 16 x (N - 4)
Acceleration Token CPU Devices Accelerator Devices
0 2 0
1 4 1
2 8 2
3 16 4
4 32 8
5 64 16
... ... ...
Example 2: How many Acceleration Tokens are required for a simulation using a cluster of two machines with 2 CPU devices and 2 acceleration devices each?
2 x 2 CPU devices -> 1 token2 x 2 acc. devices -> 3 token
4 token required}
The total number of tokens is calculated by summing up the tokens for all used CPUs and accelerator devices.
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3) IMPORT/EXPORT OPTIONS OVERVIEW
CST STUDIO SUITE off ers a broad range of included and optio-nal mechanical CAD and layout import capabilities.
Geometry import examples
Category Format Import Export Charge
2D DXF X X -
2D GDSII X X -
2D Gerber Single Layer X X Yes
3D STL X X -
3D SAT X X -
3D NASTRAN X X -
3D Mecadtron X -
3D Conventor X -
3D ADS/HFSS/Sonnet X -
3D Autodesk Inventor X 3D Import Token
3D CATIA V4 X 3D Import Token
3D CATIA V5 X 3D Import Token
3D IGES X X 3D Import Token
3D Parasolid X 3D Import Token
3D PTC Creo and PTC Pro/E X 3D Import Token
3D Siemens NX X 3D Import Token
3D Solid Edge X 3D Import Token
3D SolidWorks X 3D Import Token
3D STEP X X 3D Import Token
3D VDA-FS X 3D Import Token
EDA Chip (Open Access, GDS II) X Chip Interface
EDA ODB++ X EDA Import Token
EDA CADENCE Allegro PCB/APD/SiP X EDA Import Token
EDA CST Layout Database X EDA Import Token
EDA IPC-2581 X EDA Import Token
EDA Mentor Graphics Expedition X EDA Import Token
EDA Mentor Graphics PowerPCB (PADS) X EDA Import Token
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EDA Mentor Graphics Hyperlynx X EDA Import Token
EDA Simlab PCBMod X EDA Import Token
EDA Zuken CR-5000 X EDA Import Token
EDA Zuken CR-8000 X EDA Import Token
EDA Gerber Multiple Layer (NETEX-G) X Yes
Visual POV Ray X -
Results Touchstone X X -
Results ASCII X X -
Results ADS Component X -
Results MWO Link X -
Results SPICE X X -
Voxel OBJ (e.g. third party posable hand/body model format) X -
Voxel Biological Data Interface (no Data Set) X -
Voxel CST Voxel Bio Models X Yes
Voxel HUGO Human Data Set(4,5,6,8 mm) X Yes
Voxel HUGO Human Data Set(1,2,3,4,5,6,8 mm) X Yes
Import/Export Options (not all formats are supported by each product).
If not included by default or otherwise indicated, all options are “Single User”. After the feature is released by a user, there is a 30 minute wait time before that feature is available for another user.
4) MULTIPLATFORM ADD-ON
Customers running simulations in a pure Linux environ-ment (e.g. a computer cluster running the Linux operating system, controlled by a queuing system) are free to complete their license with a multiplatform upgrade. Please note that configurations with a CST frontend/GUI running on Windows but simulations started remotely using either MPI or DC don‘t require this option. Only if the CST frontend is running on Linux the multiplatform is needed.
5) NETWORK TYPE (LAN, WAN, NL)
A Local Area Network license (LAN) is the standard choice for working groups with more than one user. Having a network license, a group or division of a company may install the license on a server and on an unlimited number of clients which all belong to a local area network, provided that the LAN does not extend beyond a single building or group of buildings, and in no event encompasses a geographic area greater than one square mile. A FLEXLM license server will be installed in order to ensure that the allowed usage in terms of frontend, processes, modules etc. is not exceeded.
Licenses that permit use beyond a LAN are also available and are called Wide Area Network (WAN) licenses. The uplift factor depends on the number of sites or size of the region
for which the usage should be extended. The area or sites for the WAN must be defined on quote and invoice.
For use by only one user, the Node-Locked (NL) license is an economical alternative. A node-locked license restricts the access to a single computer. Terminal server access is not allowed or possible.
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6) MAINTENANCE AND UPDATES
The standard license includes one year’s maintenance and support. It can be renewed on a yearly basis at 16% (subject to change) of the then current list price before the expiration of maintenance and at 20% for any backdated maintenance. Interruptions are not allowed. Maintenance has to be ordered for the complete license, it cannot just cover parts of it.
CST STUDIO SUITE supports various operation systems. For details please refer to http://updates.CST.com/downloads/CST-OS-Support.pdf
Warranty/support is limited to model sizes ■ Up to 200 Million mesh cells for Cartesian grids ■ Up to 2 Million second order mesh cells for tetrahedral grids ■ Up to 64 GBytes memory
ABOUT CST
Founded in 1992, CST off ers the market’s widest range of 3D electromagnetic fi eld simulation tools through a global network of sales and support staff and repre-sentatives. CST develops CST STUDIO SUITE, a package of high-performance software for the simulation of electromagnetic fi elds in all frequency bands, and also sells and supports complementary third-party products. Its success is based on a combination of leading edge technology, a user-friendly interface and knowledge-able support staff . CST’s customers are market leaders in industries as diverse as telecommunications, defense, automotive, electronics and healthcare. Today, the company enjoys a leading position in the high-frequency 3D EM simulation market and employs 280 sales, deve-lopment, and support personnel around the world.
CST STUDIO SUITE is the culmination of many years of research and development into the most accurate and effi cient computational solutions for electromagnetic designs. From static to optical, and from the nanoscale to the electrically large, CST STUDIO SUITE includes tools for the design, simulation and optimization of a wide range of devices. Analysis is not limited to pure EM, but can also include thermal and mechanical eff ects and circuit simulation. CST STUDIO SUITE can off er consi-derable product to market advantages such as shorter development cycles, virtual prototyping before physical trials, and optimization instead of experimentation.
Further information about CST is available on the web at www.cst.com
CST DESIGN STUDIO, CST BOARDCHECK, PERFECT BOUNDARY APPROXIMATION (PBA), and the CST logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of CST in North America,
the European Union, and other countries. Other brands and their products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be noted as such.
CST STUDIO SUITE® is a CST® product.
CST – Computer Simulation Technology AG, Bad Nauheimer Str. 19, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
Typically a major release of CST STUDIO SUITE is delivered once a year. In-between, service packs with bug fixes are regularly made available and installed without further inter-action by the user in the background, if the automatic update manager is enabled.
