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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.
CST STUDIO SUITE LICENSING GUIDE 2018 2
Please note: This document describes the in 2018 newly introduced product packaging, valid for any new sale, and customer
contracts already being converted from the previous legacy packaging to the new packaging. Customers with a contract
that is based on the legacy product packaging, are requested to refer to the 2017 Licensing Guide. In case of doubt please
contact your account manager.
CST STUDIO SUITE - The centerpiece of CST’s product range is CST STUDIO SUITE®. This comprises
CST’s complete set of 3D electromagnetic simulation tools, along with a number of related solvers and
products dedicated to more specific design areas such as cable harnesses, PCBs, thermal and EM/circuit
co-simulation.
Antenna Magus, IDEM, SPARK 3D and FEST 3D complement and are optional parts of the CST STUDIO SUITE,
but are in addition available as stand-alone offering.
Antenna Magus is a software tool to help accelerate the antenna design and modelling process. It
increases efficiency by helping the engineer to make a more informed choice of antenna element, providing
a good starting design. Validated antenna models can be exported to CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® from
a huge antenna database which means that the engineer can get to the customisation phase of an
antenna design quickly and reliably.
Explore.Design.Deliver.
IDEM is a user friendly tool for the generation of macromodels of linear lumped multi-port struc-
tures (e.g., via fields, connectors, packages, discontinuities, etc.), known from their input-output port
responses. The raw characterization of the structure can come from measurement or simulation, either
in frequency domain or in time domain. A suite of advanced and well-conditioned rational fitting
modules grants applicability to virtually any kind of characterization. The resulting models are cast in
common SPICE formats for the system-level simulations required in your design flow. Thus, IdEM enables
SPICE processing for any kind of linear structure, component, interconnect, package, whatever is your
native characterization and application area.
SPARK3D is a unique simulation tool for determining the RF breakdown power. Field results from
CST STUDIO SUITE® simulations can be imported directly into SPARK3D to analyse vacuum breakdown
(multipactor) and gas discharge. Typical approximate approaches to determine the RF breakdown power
level of any component are intentionally, extremely conservative. SPARK3D can predict more realistic
breakdown power levels, significantly improving the design margins.
FEST3D is a software tool capable of analysing complex passive microwave components based on wave-
guide technology (including multiplexers, couplers and filters) in very short computational times with
high accuracy. This suite offers all the capabilities needed for the design of passive components such as
optimization and tolerance analysis. Moreover, FEST3D advanced synthesis tools allow designing band-
pass, dual-mode and lowpass filters from user specifications.
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CST STUDIO SUITE represents a modular concept in which A CST STUDIO SUITE license requires as a minimum config-
each module covers a certain frequency or application range. uration one CST STUDIO SUITE Package. The number of
All CST STUDIO SUITE solvers and modules are seamlessly Packages that can be ordered is not limited. Any such Package
integrated into a common interface. contains a Frontend and a Solver Process and is the recom-
mended ordering approach, as it is more cost effective than
With a newly introduced revised product packaging, a selec- ordering additional Frontends or additional Solver Processes
tion of 17 previously separately licensed solvers as well as the separately. Other than the Package discount, there is no
most widely used 3D import options (previous ‘3D Import difference in the license behavior or technical capabilities of
Token’) are made available with each license. Frontends / Solver Processes being part of Packages.
A license can be configured to the needs of each customer by To further enrich the CST STUDIO SUITE license, customers
making choices about the following parameters: are free to add additional functionality as listed in Table 1 in
any quantity wished. The Multi-Platform upgrade and the
(1) Number of Frontends and Solver Processes CST Bio Models follow a flat scheme and hence need to be
(2) Number of Acceleration Tokens (High Performance acquired only once to become generally available.
Computing)
In case of Antenna Magus, IDEM, FEST 3D and SPARK 3D,
(3) Additional Solver/Design Technology there exists also the possibility to order these as sepa-
(4) Additional Import and Export Options rate (stand-alone) products, rather than as add-ons of a
CST STUDIO SUITE license. In this case the pre-requisite of
(5) Operating System (OS): Windows or Windows/Linux ordering at least one CST STUDIO SUITE Package becomes
(6) Network Type (LAN, WAN, Node-locked) obsolete and customers can just order the number of seats
(7) Perpetual or Limited Term license required.
1A) FRONTENDS
2) ACCELERATION TOKEN
Simulation performance can be further improved for some GPU Computing Unit
solvers by hardware acceleration on supported accelerator (Accelerator Device)
devices. (Please refer to the GPU Computing Guide for the
complete list of supported devices.)
Solver Process
Already Part of
Solver Module Icon Check-out
Standard License?
required?
Time Domain T Yes Yes
Frequency Domain F Yes Yes
Eigenmode E Yes Yes
Integral Equation I Yes Yes
Asymptotic A Yes Yes
Multilayer M Yes Yes
Printed Circuit Board PCB Yes Yes
Rule Check RCK Yes Yes
Static S Yes Yes
Low Frequency LF Yes Yes
Tracking TRK Yes Yes
Wakefield WAK Yes Yes
Particle-in-Cell PIC Yes Yes
Thermal TH Yes Yes
Structural Mechanics SM Yes Yes
Circuit Simulator DES Yes Yes(1)
Cable Harness CBL Yes Yes
System Simulator SYS - -
Filter Designer 2D FD2D - -
Filter Designer 3D FD3D - -
Antenna Magus AM - -
IDEM IDEM - -
FEST 3D FEST3D - -
SPARK 3D SPARK3D - -
Table 3: Solver Overview
(1) Most of Circuit Simulator (DES) features do not block a Solver Process, however,
the Optimizer, Parameter Sweep and the Transient Task require a Solver Process key
to be available.
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Table 4: 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.
TRADEMARKS
CST, CST STUDIO SUITE, CST MICROWAVE STUDIO (CST MWS), CST EM STUDIO, CST PARTICLE STUDIO, CST CABLE STUDIO, CST PCB STUDIO, CST MPHYSICS STUDIO,
MPHYSICS, CST MICROSTRIPES, CST DESIGN STUDIO, CST EMC STUDIO, CST BOARDCHECK, PERFECT BOUNDARY APPROXIMATION (PBA), Antenna Magus, the CST logo,
3DEXPERIENCE, the Compass icon, the 3DS logo, CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, ENOVIA, DELMIA, SIMULIA, GEOVIA, EXALEAD, 3D VIA, BIOVIA, NETVIBES, IFWE and 3DEXCITE are
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