Silvaco Management Console

(SMAN)
User’s Manual

Silvaco, Inc.
4701 Patrick Henry Drive, Bldg. 2 January 8, 2014
Santa Clara, CA 95054
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 Table of Contents

Chapter 1 
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.1 What is the Silvaco Management Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.2 The SMAN Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.2.1 Running SMAN in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.2.2 Running SMAN in UNIX/Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 2 
Actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1 About Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2 Documents Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.3 Products Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.3.1 Analog & Mixed Signal Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.3.2 Custom IC CAD Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.3.3 Digital CAD Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.3.4 Interconnect Modeling Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.3.5 TCAD Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.3.6 Add and Manage Updates Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.3.7 All Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.4 System Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.4.1 System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.4.2 Communications Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.4.3 Environment Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.4.4 File Checksums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.4.5 Licensing Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.4.6 Manage Encryption Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2.4.7 Processes Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.4.8 System Diagnostics Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 3 
Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 4 
Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
4.1 Generating a Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Appendix A 
Installing Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
A.1 Updating Silvaco Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
A.1.1 Step 1: Start the Silvaco Management Console (SMAN). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
A.1.2 Step 2: Select the Add and Manage Updates button () from the toolbar or from the Tools menu. . . . 37
A.1.3 Step 3: The Updates Installed window lists all installed baselines and updates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
A.1.4 Step 4: Click on the Browse button and select the update (.ssu) or baseline (.exe, .tar.gz, .tgz) file
to install. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

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A.1.5 Step 5: Click the Install button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

A.1.6 Step 6: The update or baseline will be installed and any installation output will be displayed
in the Output window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
A.1.7 Step 7: A copy of all baseline and update files will be placed in the $Silvaco\updates directory 
(where $Silvaco is the installation directory for Silvaco products). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Appendix B 
Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
B.1 Updating Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
B.2 Managing Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Appendix C 
Hourly Charge Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
C.1 SFLM Hourly Charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Appendix D 
Encrypting a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
D.1 Encrypt File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

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 Chapter 1
Introduction
What is the Silvaco Management Console Introduction

1.1 What is the Silvaco Management Console

The Silvaco Management Console (SMAN) is a tool used primarily for diagnostics and to
provide support engineers with all the necessary information for fixing a Silvaco
installation.
SMAN is available on multiple operating systems, including Windows and Linux.
SMAN can act as a first line support tool for common setup problems and reference
information. The tool has the ability to query but is not limited to such information as
memory usage, processor information, machine architecture, communications information,
and licensing.
This manual will describe the common uses of the SMAN tool and how to provide a report to
Silvaco support staff to help them diagnose any problems faced.

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The SMAN Window Introduction

1.2 The SMAN Window

1.2.1 Running SMAN in Windows
To run the latest version of SMAN, double-click the shortcut or select it from the Start Menu.
The SMAN Window will appear as shown in Figure 1-1. The SMAN Window has six main
areas: Menu, Tool Bar, Action Window, Output Window, Status Bar, and Copyright Window.
The Action Window is where you choose and perform actions. The Output Window contains
output for each of the actions. In some cases, further input is required, which is entered in the
Output Window. The Menu and Tool Bar windows simply allow quick access to some of the
actions. The Status Bar provides a summary of the current action. The Copyright Window
displays the copyright information of the program.

Figure 1-1 The SMAN Window

1.2.2 Running SMAN in UNIX/Linux

To run the latest version of SMAN, run the program from $Silvaco/bin/sman where
$Silvaco is the installation directory.

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Chapter 2
Actions
About Screen Actions

2.1 About Screen

The About screen (Figure 2-1) shows the following information about the program, version
number, support details and copyright information. To open this screen, select HelpAbout.

Figure 2-1 About Screen

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2.2 Documents Screen

The Documents Screen (Figure 2-2) shows you the documents that are installed in the
Silvaco installation directory. These documents include manuals, release notes and support
documents.

Figure 2-2 Documents Screen

The Documents output (Figure 2-3) is split into three sections:
• Product documentation
• Installation guides
• PDK documentation

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Figure 2-3 Product and Application Documents

Installation Guides (Figure 2-4) show the user how to setup the Silvaco installation correctly,
including documentation for SFLM, SMAN, and TCAD..

Figure 2-4 Installation Guides

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PDK documents (Figure 2-5) are documents that contain the description and release notes of
the PDK collections installed.

Figure 2-5 PDK Documents

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Products Screen Actions

2.3 Products Screen

The Products screen shows all the installed products in the current Silvaco installation and
allows you to add and manage new updates received from Silvaco. The main Products screen
(Figure 2-6) groups the products into their natural collections/packages.

Figure 2-6 Products Screen

The natural grouping of the products in collections/packages are:
• Analog & Mixed Signal
• Custom IC CAD
• Digital CAD
• Interconnect Modeling
• TCAD
In addition to these groups, two more options are also available:
• Add and Manage Updates
• All Applications

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2.3.1 Analog & Mixed Signal Screen

The Analog & Mixed Signal screen (Figure 2-7) details all the products that fall into the
Analog & Mixed Signal (AMS) package. The AMS package includes tools that allow you to
perform design, simulation, and model extraction services.

Figure 2-7 Analog & Mixed Signal Screen

The following products are in the AMS package:
• Utmost III: This tool performs data acquisition, device characterization, parameter
extraction, and model verification.
• Utmost IV: Utmost IV Optimization Module provides an easy to use database-driven
environment to generate accurate high quality SPICE models and macro-models for
analog, mixed-signal, and RF applications.
• Spayn: This is the ideal statistical modeling tool for analyzing variances from model
parameter extraction sequences, electrical test routines, and circuit test measurements.
• Gateway: Schematic capture tool.
• Harmony: Analog/Mixed-Signal Simulator.
• SmartSpice: Analog Circuit Simulator.
• SmartSpiceRF: Harmonic Balance based Simulator.

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2.3.2 Custom IC CAD Screen

The Custom IC CAD screen (Figure 2-8) details all the products that fall into the Custom IC
CAD package. This package includes tools that allows you to perform layout and LVS.

Figure 2-8 Custom IC CAD Screen

The following products are in the Custom IC CAD package:
• Expert: The Layout Editor
• Guardian DRC/LVS/LPE: The Design Rule Checker, Layout Vs. Schematic and Layout
Parameter Extraction tool.

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2.3.3 Digital CAD Screen

The Digital CAD screen (Figure 2-9) details all the products that fall into the Digital CAD
package. This package includes tools that allow you to perform digital simulations and
verification of digital simulations.

Figure 2-9 Digital CAD Screen

The following products are in the Digital CAD package:
• Silos: Verilog Simulator
• TurboLint: Programmable HDL Checker
• HyperFault: Mixed Level Fault Simulator

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2.3.4 Interconnect Modeling Screen

The Interconnect Modeling screen (Figure 2-10) details all the products that fall into the
Interconnect Modeling package. This package includes tools that allow you to perform 2D
and 3D interconnect modeling, and 2D and 3D field solving.

Figure 2-10 Interconnect Modeling Screen

The following products are in the Interconnect Modeling package:
• Exact: 3D field solver.
• Quest: Calculates 3D frequency dependent inductance, resistance, capacitance and
capacitive loss for any multi-port network for RF SPICE analysis.
• Clever: Physics-Based Parasitic Extractor.
• Stellar: Standard cell parasitic characterization.
• Hipex: Full-Chip Parasitic Extractor.

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2.3.5 TCAD Screen

The TCAD screen (Figure 2-11) details all the products that fall into the TCAD package. The
TCAD package contains tools that allow you to model the behavior and characteristics of
semiconductor devices and materials.

Figure 2-11 TCAD Screen

The following products are in the TCAD package:
• VWF: The integrated environment for TCAD software.
• Athena: Develops and optimize semiconductor-manufacturing processes.
• Atlas: Simulates the electrical, optical, and thermal behavior of semiconductor devices.
• Mercury: The MESFET and HEMT simulation framework that contains:
• FastBlaze
• FastNoise
• FastDevEdit
• Mocasim

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2.3.6 Add and Manage Updates Screen

The Add and Manage Updates screen (Figure 2-12) allows you to install and view installed
updates that were placed in the Silvaco installation directory. For more information on
Installing Updates, see Appendix A: “Installing Updates”.

Figure 2-12 Add and Manage Updates Screen

The Updates Installed area informs you what updates are currently installed in the Silvaco
installation directory.
The Output area will display the progress of the updates.

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2.3.7 All Applications

The All Applications screen (Figure 2-13) details all the Silvaco products, including
products that do not fall into a specific category and utility programs that other products use.

Figure 2-13 All Applications Screen

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System Screen Actions

2.4 System Screen

The System Screen of the SMAN product is used to diagnose any specific problem on the
current system and will check whether licensing and communications are available for the
current machine.
The System Screen is split up into the following sections:
• System Information
• Communications
• Environment
• File Checksums
• Licensing
• Manage Encryption Keys
• Processes
• System Diagnostics

2.4.1 System Information

The System Information screen (Figure 2-14) returns all the important information about the
system, such as Operating System, Version, Name, Processor Information, User
Information, and Memory Information.

Figure 2-14 System Information Screen

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2.4.2 Communications Information

The Communications Information screen (Figure 2-15) shows the communications
information for Silvaco products. It contains the name of the communications server used,
whether the server is local, and the currently running Silvaco products that are using
Communications and the Security file.
The Security file is used to limit what products can be started by another Silvaco product a
‘+’ allows full access.
The Communications Information screen also contains the diagnostics of the communications
through the Silvaco communications library SIPC (Silvaco Inter-Process
Communications).

Figure 2-15 Communications Screen

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2.4.3 Environment Information

The Environment Information screen (Figure 2-16) shows all of the environment variables set
for Silvaco products and all the environment variables set by the system.

Figure 2-16 Environment Screen

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2.4.4 File Checksums

The File Checksums screen (Figure 2-17) allows you to verify that the checksum of a
downloaded update matches the checksum of the file on the control center. This makes sure
that the file downloaded correctly and is not missing any information.

Figure 2-17 File Checksums Screen

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2.4.5 Licensing Information

The Licensing Information screen (Figure 2-18) shows the licensing environment setup on
this machine and informs you the status of the license monitor.

Figure 2-18 Licensing Screen

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System Screen Actions

From the SMAN product, you can also manage the licensing server. On Windows, this is
done through the SMAN product itself (see Figure 2-19). On UNIX machines, SMAN asks
you to enter the name of the web browser to use to manage SFLM.

Figure 2-19 License Management Screen

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2.4.6 Manage Encryption Keys

The Manage Encryption keys screen (Figure 2-20) displays the current encryption keys
available in the installation area. The encryption keys are used along with the Sencrypt tool to
encrypt data files use by Silvaco tools. This screen allows you to Add, Delete, Import, and
Export Keys.

Figure 2-20 Manage Encryption Keys Screen

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2.4.7 Processes Information

The Processes Information screen (Figure 2-21) displays all the processes that are currently
running on the machine (on Windows it will also display a list of all the services).

Figure 2-21 Processes Screen

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2.4.8 System Diagnostics Screen

The System Diagnostics Screen (Figure 2-22) performs platform specific diagnostics that
allows Silvaco to troubleshoot the problem on the machine. These diagnostics include
network and system information about the machine that the report was run on.

Figure 2-22 System Diagnostics Screen

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 Chapter 3
Preferences
 Preferences

The Preferences dialog allows you to set preferences, such as how to extract updates, when to
warn on hourly charges, setting internet settings, configuration of toolbars, and shortcuts.

Figure 3-1 Preferences Dialog

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Chapter 4
Reports
Generating a Report Reports

4.1 Generating a Report

This chapter describes the generating of reports in SMAN. To generate a report in SMAN,
select FileNew Report (Figure 4-1).

Figure 4-1 New Report

Once selected, the report will be generated and a summary will appear (Figure 4-2).

Figure 4-2 Report Summary

The Report Summary will show the progress of the report generation. Once the progress bar
stops, you can save, show the details or cancel the report. If you press Save, the following
dialog will ask you for a name to choose to save the report under (report files end in the
extension .rpt).

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Generating a Report Reports

Figure 4-3 Saving a report

If you press Details, the details of the report will appear (Figure 4-4).

Figure 4-4 Report Details

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 Appendix A
Installing Updates
Updating Silvaco Products Installing Updates

A.1 Updating Silvaco Products

The following section describes the steps to install updates for Silvaco products.

A.1.1 Step 1: Start the Silvaco Management Console (SMAN).

A.1.2 Step 2: Select the Add and Manage Updates button ( ) from the toolbar or
from the Tools menu.

A.1.3 Step 3: The Updates Installed window lists all installed baselines and updates.

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Updating Silvaco Products Installing Updates

A.1.4 Step 4: Click on the Browse button and select the update (.ssu) or baseline
(.exe, .tar.gz, .tgz) file to install.

A.1.5 Step 5: Click the Install button.

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Updating Silvaco Products Installing Updates

A.1.6 Step 6: The update or baseline will be installed and any installation output will
be displayed in the Output window.

A.1.7 Step 7: A copy of all baseline and update files will be placed in the
$Silvaco\updates directory (where $Silvaco is the installation directory
for Silvaco products).

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Appendix B
Shortcuts
Updating Shortcuts Shortcuts

B.1 Updating Shortcuts

The following section describes the steps to update the shortcuts and how the Silvaco
Management Console (SMAN) maintains the shortcuts.
On Linux and Windows, SMAN creates shortcuts to the products that you have installed.
On Windows, SMAN will create a desktop shortcut pointing to the Shortcuts directory
($S_INSTALL_ROOT/Shortcuts). The desktop shortcut will reflect this if the path to this
directory is contained on a shared directory or network drive. Also on Windows, the program
menu will be created with each version of the products. See Figure B-1.

Figure B-1 Windows Desktop

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Updating Shortcuts Shortcuts

On Linux, SMAN will create a desktop folder. This will contain the shortcuts of each product.
This folder is created under the home directories $HOME/Desktop and $HOME/.gnome-
desktop to take into account the KDE and GNOME desktops. See Figure B-2.

Figure B-2 Linux Desktops (GNOME & KDE)

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Managing Shortcuts Shortcuts

B.2 Managing Shortcuts

SMAN also manages the shortcuts by making sure that the shortcuts are up-to-date with the
installed versions. This check is performed every time SMAN starts. It does this by
comparing the date when the shortcuts were last updated and when the last baseline or
package was installed. If the dates are different, you will be prompted with the following
question (Figure B-3).

Figure B-3 Update Shortcuts

If you answer Never to the above question, it means that you will not be prompted until the
next package is installed.
You can update the shortcuts manually by typing in the command-line option -shortcuts
(i.e., sman -shortcuts) or by clicking the Update Shortcuts button on the Add/Manage
Shortcuts screen (Figure B-4).

Figure B-4 Add/Manage Shortcuts

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 Appendix C
Hourly Charge Clock
SFLM Hourly Charges Hourly Charge Clock

C.1 SFLM Hourly Charges

The following section describes the SFLM Hourly Charges clock, which is embedded in
SMAN. This clock gives you the ability to see how much time you have to run the various
Silvaco products.

Figure C-1 SFLM Hourly Charges

The clock shows various fields that depict such things as the Balance on the Server, any
Pending Charges, and estimates of how much time is left given the current charge rate.
The clock by default polls the SFLM server every 15 seconds to check if any of the numbers
have changed. This can be modified in the preferences for the clock, which are accessed
through the context menu.
The preferences also allow you to set different thresholds for each number and will change
the color of the number to denote when the threshold has been hit.
To access the clock, use the menu option in SMAN (ToolsSFLM Hourly Charges) or run
SMAN from the command line with the switch –clock (e.g., /opt/seda/bin/sman
– clock).

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 Appendix D
Encrypting a File
Encrypt File Encrypting a File

D.1 Encrypt File

The following section describes how to encrypt a file using SMAN. This file will be
encrypted by using the Sencrypt tool and allows the use of the keys stored in the Silvaco
installation area.

Figure D-1 Encrypt File Dialog

To access the Encrypt File dialog, select from SMAN ToolsEncrypt File. The dialog has
various options to allow different parts of the file to be encrypted or whether to include a
maintenance time in the file. These options are
• Type of encryption
• Use Key
• TCAD Input Deck
• Encrypt blocks
• Include Maintenance protection
• Backup Original

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Encrypt File Encrypting a File

Type Of Encryption
This option allows you to specify whether to use Line by Line or Entire File encryption.
Line by Line encryption will encrypt each line (ending in a newline character), which is
useful for ASCII files. This adds the –at command line argument to Sencrypt.
Entire File encryption is used to encrypt binary files and will encrypt the entire file.
Use Key
This option allows you to pick one or more keys to be applied to the file when encrypting.
This adds a –skey=<key> to the command line arguments to Sencrypt for each <key>
selected.
TCAD Input Deck
This option must be used if the file that is being encrypted is a TCAD input deck that is to be
processed by DeckBuild. This is so that DeckBuild can decrypt the file to be set to its associ-
ated programs. This adds the –deckbuild command line argument to Sencrypt.
Encrypt Blocks
This option allows you to specify which part of an ASCII file may be encrypted. This adds the
–protect command line argument to Sencrypt.
Include Maintenance protection
This option allows you to only allow other users to use this file if their license is valid at the
time of encryption. This adds the –mtime command line argument to Sencrypt.
Backup Original
This option informs SMAN to make a copy of the original file to be encrypted. This is useful
if you want to encrypt (and use) the file immediately. This option is on by default as there is
no decryption tool.

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