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--- services:cmcstc [2013/10/03 13:20] – jas
+++ services:cmcstc [2019/07/29 10:07] – seela
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   * local license server
-**Anyone using any of the STC components and infrastructure is required to have a current CMC Designer level or Prototype level subscription. Information about the CMC subscriptions can be found [[http://www.cmc.ca/WhatWeOffer/Subscription.aspx|here]].**
+**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 [[http://www.cmc.ca/WhatWeOffer/Subscription.aspx|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.  Designer Subscriptions will allow for use of tools/kits for training, including use by students who are not supervised grad students of the Subscription holder.
+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 [[http://www.cmc.ca/WhatWeOffer/Design.aspx|here]].
+=====July 19th 2019:Important change to CMC tool use for education(Jas )=====
+<code>
+Ulya,(msg also cced to Sebastian)
+There is a very important change to CMC tool use for education that was recently made.
+If you look at the subscription types on this page:
+</code>https://www.cmc.ca/en/WhatWeOffer/Subscription.aspx
+<code>
+There are three new subscription types.  These replace the existing subscriptions.
+  When faculty renew their existing subscriptions with CMC, they will be forced
+to choose one of the three new subscriptions.
+The "Professor Research" subscription which is $1000/year includes:
+    Unlimited use of Cadence, Mentor, Synopsys and Xilinx for research use.
+    Other tools capped at five concurrent use instances per tool from the
+    subscriber’s research team. E.g., 5 concurrent use instances of ANSYS;
+    or 2 concurrent use instances of COMSOL + 1 Tanner + 5 ANSYS are both
+     valid use cases.
+    Additional access to CAD for research use can be purchased - $1000 for
+    five additional concurrent user instances per tool.
+    *** DOES NOT INCLUDE EDUCATION USE OF ANY TOOLS <-- VERY IMPORTANT ***
+Next is the "Institution/Department" license.  This costs $5000/yr + $1000 per
+professor to be included/year.  This includes unlimited use of ALL CAD tools +
+education use.  Like before, education use is permitted.  It is limited to the
+following: Unlimited education course use of ANSYS, Cadence, Keysight ADS, Mentor
+Graphics, and Synopsys. Licenses provided based on student enrollment per course.
+ Unlimited number of courses within Subscription period.
+Finally, you have the "Education" subscription which is $2000/yr for JUST
+education use.  This clearly doesn't make much sense.
+It makes sense for the Department to buy into the Institution/Department
+license ($5000/year), then faculty can pay their $1000 to be included.
+ Faculty may save money depending on how many tools they were previously using.
+ $1000 for access to as many tools as they like sounds pretty good.  However,
+it's not clear who would pay the $5000.  There are other faculty in Lassonde
+who are CMC subscribers as well.    Would it make sense for Lassonde to pay
+the $5000 fee?   I want to avoid both Lassonde *and* the Department paying
+the $5000 fee simply because people don't talk.
+Anyway, I'm pointing this out well in advance of the beginning of the school year.
+  I don't want there to be surprises when a faculty member states that they want
+ to use the tools in their course, but they don't have the proper subscription.
+  It would be good to sign up for the Institution/Department license, then, as
+ faculty subscriptions expire, they pay their $1000 and get moved to the new license.
+Jason.
+</code>
 ===== General Notes =====
-  * The CMC STC is available as /CMC on indigo (a Linux system), and from any other tech-supported Departmental Linux system as required.
+  * 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 either:
+  * 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: [[http://www.cmc.ca/en/WhatWeOffer/Design/Tools/CADactivate.aspx|From your own non tech-managed Linux/Windows system]], from tech-managed Linux: /CMC/scripts/CADactivate/cadactivate.sh (In both cases, you must wait 24 hours for approval)
+    * CADactivate:
-    * CADpass v3.0: [[https://community.cmc.ca/docs/DOC-1528|From your own non tech-managed Linux/Windows system]], from tech-managed Linux: /CMC/scripts/CADpass-v3/APPGclnt-single/bin/agclient
+      * [[http://www.cmc.ca/en/WhatWeOffer/Design/Tools/CADactivate.aspx|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:
+      * [[https://community.cmc.ca/docs/DOC-1528|From your own non tech-managed Linux/Windows system]],
+      * from tech-managed Linux: /CMC/local/bin/cadpass
 ===== Accessing The Tools =====
-After you have been granted access to the tools that you require, please consult the [[https://community.cmc.ca/docs/DOC-1224|CMC Tool Matrix]].  This page (which requires a CMC account) will provide instructions for accessing the tools.  Another page on the CMC site referred to as [[https://community.cmc.ca/docs/DOC-1521|CAD Tool Access Matrix 2.0]] provides download links for software, and quick start guides.
+After you have been granted access to the tools that you require, please consult the [[https://community.cmc.ca/docs/DOC-1224|CMC Tool Matrix]] for software that is available in our local Linux STC.
-**NOTE:** Before you can use most licensed tools, you will need to add one line to the end of your .cshrc file:
+**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.
 ===== Using CMC Tools For Teaching =====
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   * 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
-===== Additional Notes =====
-==== cmosp13 1.8.0.4 ====
-  * installed for Sebastian, April 1/2013 - /CMC/kits/cmosp13.V1.8.0.0DM
-  * Full documentation is included in the design kit and can be accessed after installation through the following path: /CMC/kits/cmosp13.V1.8.0.0DM/IBM_PDK/cmrf8sf/V1.8.0.4DM/doc
-  * % source /CMC/scripts/kits.ibm130nm.v1.8.0.4.csh
-  * % icfb &
-==== arm_cmrf8sf ====
-  * installed for Sebastian, April 1/2013 - /CMC/kits/arm_cmrf8sf
-  * read documents in /CMC/kits/arm_cmrf8sf/doc
 ===== Additional Links =====
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   * [[https://community.cmc.ca/docs/DOC-1196|CMC Kit Matrix]]
   * [[https://community.cmc.ca/docs/DOC-1589|CADpass Licensing Information]]
+  * [[https://community.cmc.ca/community/design-environment|Design Environment]]
   * [[https://community.cmc.ca/welcome|CMC Community]]