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The licence management system, formerly FLEXlm, used by most EDA vendors to serve, meter and enforce floating licences. It defines the lmgrd daemon, vendor daemons, feature lines and the LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable.
- Also known as
- FLEXlm, FlexLM
- Type
- Technology
- Domain
- EDA Tools & Flows, Licensing
Notes
Its per-feature model is why a single tool invocation can fail mid-run when one of several checked-out features runs out.
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