Semiconductor

See every license. Control every seat.

EDA tools are too scarce and too expensive to run on assumption. OpenLM shows exactly which Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens EDA, or Ansys seats are active, idle, or denied — and gives you the controls to act on it, not just observe it.

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Chip Design Lifecycle

STAGE 01

CIRCUIT & SCHEMATIC DESIGN

STAGE 02

SIMULATION & VERIFICATION

STAGE 03

PHYSICAL LAYOUT

STAGE 04

MANUFACTURING CHECKS

PRIMARY SOFTWARE & VENDORS

The vendors Semiconductor sector runs on, all covered by OpenLM

Your entire vendor stack, in one dashboard: OpenLM reads usage directly from the license managers your tools already run on — FlexNet/FlexLM, DSLS, RLM, Sentinel RMS, and IBM LUM. Tools such as Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens EDA, Ansys, Keysight, usage lands in one place.

VENDOR	POPULAR TOOLS
Cadence	Virtuoso, Innovus, Genus, Tempus, Xcelium
Synopsys	Design Compiler, VCS, PrimeTime, IC Compiler II, HSPICE
Siemens EDA	Calibre, Questa, Xpedition
Ansys	HFSS, RedHawk-SC, Icepak
Keysight EDA	ADS (Advanced Design System)

THE COST OF NOT KNOWING

Avoid delay in your expert work - by identifying Idle Licenses

Your engineers’ time is valuable — so is every license they touch. Matching the two, seat for seat, turns idle capacity into time your team can actually use.

Full utilization

every seat working, not waitin

No blocked engineers

access when it’s needed, before it becomes a deadline problem

One clear view

Ensure software access for engineers across regions—so your teams can work without delays.

Predictable renewals

true-ups and true-downs you see coming

Confident decisions

buy what the data says, not what last year’s contract says

HOW OPENLM FITS IN

Capabilities built for how chip design teams actually work

The companies that manage EDA well aren’t the ones who buy more licenses — they’re the ones who can see how the licenses they have are actually used.
Add messaging around global/multi-site engineering teams competing for the same EDA license pool.

Agent Hub — Command every workstation from one console.

Manage every workstation from one central console without site visits. OpenLM automatically frees up unused seats — Cadence, Synopsys, Ansys — without interrupting active work, and links usage straight to project budgets.

License Access Control — Enforcement-grade control, not just visibility.

Set rules on who can access Cadence, Synopsys, or any other tool, and when. Syncs with your company directory and keeps a full activity log for compliance.

Denial Analysis — Catch problems before they cause delay.

See exactly when and why engineers get blocked, with severity-aware alerts on the top denied or underutilized pools — before it costs you a tape-out deadline.

Unified & Advanced BI Reporting — Every tool, one place, real time.

Instant, real-time data across your entire vendor stack in one dashboard. Set target goals and see key stats the moment you log in.

Audit-Ready Records — A complete, searchable history.

Full logging across checkouts, dongle activity, and access changes — the trail export-compliance audits demand, without the scramble.

One platform, not bolted-together tools — so IT, engineering, finance, and R&D leadership see the same real-time truth.

Featured case study

A 25,000-person research organization, one dashboard

A leading German research and engineering organization managed usage across 20+ software vendors and 30+ license servers manually, through log files and spreadsheets. OpenLM replaced that with a single real-time view, giving instant answers instead of pieced-together reports.

Four years in, when the organization’s GPU-accelerated workloads grew, OpenLM extended that same visibility to Nvidia license management too — just one platform scaling with what came next.

“After successfully using OpenLM for almost four years, integrating our Nvidia GPU licenses in as well felt like the obvious next step.”

HEAR IT FROM SEMICONDUCTOR LEADERS ON CHIPTAINABILITY

Our conversation with global semiconductor leaders on license visibility, EDA cost pressure, and the tape-out deadline problem.

Stefan Wunderer

Government Funding Manager at NOKIA

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