CMC Microsystems provides a server for us which includes:

• a collection of CMC managed and supported software components used for CAD and EDA
• a distribution mechanism for delivery of the software components to CMC client subscribers
• CADconnect license key middleware
• local license server

Anyone using any of the STC components and infrastructure is required to have a current CMC subscription. Information about the CMC subscriptions can be found here.

For each faculty member, the subscription covers any of his/her supervised students, post-doctoral fellows and research assistants who have an account with CMC.

To see which design tools, kits, and methodologies are available from CMC, click here.

IMPORTANT NOTE: CMC subscriptions and education usage rules have substantially changed in 2019. Before you renew any existing CMC subscription, please speak to Ulya.

• The CMC STC is available as /CMC on navy.eecs.yorku.ca (a Linux system), and from other tech-supported Departmental Linux systems as required.
• If you plan to use tools from CMC, licensing will either occur through one of two mechanisms, depending on the tool and from where you are accessing it:
  • CADactivate:
    • From your own non tech-managed Linux/Windows system,
    • from tech-managed Linux: /CMC/local/bin/cadactivate (In both cases, you must wait 24 hours for approval)
  • CADpass v3.0:
    • From your own non tech-managed Linux/Windows system,
    • from tech-managed Linux: /CMC/local/bin/cadpass

After you have been granted access to the tools that you require, please consult the CMC Tool Matrix for software that is available in our local Linux STC.

NOTE: Before you can use any tools from the STC, you will need to add one line to the end of your .cshrc file:

[-r /CMC/local/share/licenses ] && source /CMC/local/share/licenses

You will also need to source additional files as reported by the CMC tool matrix above.

• For information on using design tools for teaching, please refer to the following page on CMC community: http://www.cmc.ca/WhatWeOffer/Design/Tools/CADactivate/CADactivateInstructions/courseinstructions.aspx
• Students can CADactivate from a Linux system with /CMC here: /CMC/scripts/CADactivate/cadactivate.sh
• Students can CADactivate from a Windows system here: http://www.cmc.ca/en/WhatWeOffer/Design/Cadactivate.aspx

• CMC Subscriptions
• CMC Design Tools
• CMC Design Kits
• CMC Tool Matrix
• CMC Kit Matrix
• CADpass Licensing Information
• Design Environment
• CMC Community