The first
dialog box to appear in the PADS Flow Installation is the Hardware
Key dialog box.
Procedure
- If you are using a hardware key (dongle) for
your licensing, plug it in.
If you encounter any
Windows dialog box asking for the whereabouts of certain (driver)
files or new hardware detected, click Cancel to
dismiss. The Mentor Install program offers to install hardware key
drivers later in the installation, if necessary.
- Click Next to
start license checking.
The installer checks
the following (core) license features (factors in the minimum required
Exact Access version Date for the Main PADS release):
These license features may exist within a PADS
Suite (composite) license (with the exception of padslogic), yet
are not visible in the license file itself. Typically, PADS Suite
license feature names start with “pads” and end with “_c”. The following
are common PADS Suite license feature names containing one or more
of the above license features:
PADS
STD (PADS Standard, license feature: padsstd_c)
PADS STDPLUS (PADS Standard Plus, license feature: padsstdplus_c)
Note: For PADS VX.2.6, the minimum required Exact Access
version Date (EAD) is 2019.08, which represents August 2019. Refer
to TechNote MG59373 for
a mapping of PADS Flow versions to their required EAD.
- Proceed with “Continuing with a Current License” or “Installing a New License”.
