License

SystemVerilog Studio is a paid plugin sold through JetBrains Marketplace. The IDE manages its license with your other JetBrains licenses, so you register it with a JetBrains account, in the IDE’s own license dialog. The plugin’s page on JetBrains Marketplace gives the current price and licensing terms; this guide does not repeat them. This guide does not cover what an unlicensed plugin may do: the terms are on the Marketplace page and are applied by the IDE’s paid-plugin licensing. The plugin itself only shows the reminder described below. Register so that the reminder goes away and your use is covered by a license. To buy the plugin or start its Marketplace trial, use its Marketplace page. For a free 2-month evaluation code instead, see Have an evaluation code?.

What you see without a license

Once per IDE start, when the first IDE window opens (also on the welcome screen), a warning notification appears:

SystemVerilog Studio license required: SystemVerilog Studio requires a license. Register to keep using it.

It is a balloon in the IDE window that stays until you close it; a closed balloon is listed in the Notifications tool window. It has one action, Register…, which opens the license dialog. It does not appear when the IDE already has a license for the plugin. If you install or enable the plugin while the IDE is running, the check runs at the next IDE start.

Have an evaluation code?

The free 2-month evaluation code from the evaluation page is a JetBrains Marketplace coupon, not a license key: the IDE does not accept it. Redeem it on the JetBrains website first. That puts a license in your JetBrains account, and you then register as below. The license is valid for 2 months.

1. Open www.jetbrains.com/store/redeem in your browser.
2. Enter the code, your name, country and the email address of your JetBrains account (or the one you will create it with). Switch the product type from Tools & IDEs to Plugins, pick SystemVerilog Studio in the Product list, tick the box that accepts JetBrains’ terms and click Redeem.
3. JetBrains emails you the license. Follow the link in that email and sign in to your JetBrains account (or create one) to add the license to it.
4. If SystemVerilog Studio is not installed yet, install it (Installation). Then continue with Register: sign in with that JetBrains account.

Register

1. Click Register… in the notification. If you missed it, choose Help | Manage Subscriptions in the IDE’s main menu (Help | Register… in older IDE versions; Manage Licenses on the Welcome screen). On Windows and Linux, the main menu is behind the ☰ button at the top left of the IDE window.
2. The license dialog is the IDE’s own, the same as for other JetBrains products: sign in with the JetBrains account that holds the license (or enter a license key, if you have one) and activate SystemVerilog Studio. Its wording differs between IDE versions.
3. Check it: restart the IDE. When the plugin has a license, the notification does not appear.

You change or remove a license in the same dialog. If your organization manages the licenses, ask your administrator to assign one to your JetBrains account.

If it doesn’t work

You see	Likely cause	What to do
No notification, although you have no license	The IDE did not know the license status at start-up; the plugin keeps checking for about 5 minutes (10 checks, 30 seconds apart) and shows the notification once the status is known	Wait a few minutes, or register at once from Help | Manage Subscriptions (Help | Register… in older IDE versions)
The notification is still there after you registered	The balloon stays until it is closed, and the check runs at IDE start	Close it, restart the IDE; if it comes back, check in the license dialog which account is signed in
The license dialog does not list SystemVerilog Studio	The plugin is not installed or is disabled	See Installation
The IDE does not accept your evaluation code	The code is a coupon, which is redeemed on the JetBrains website, not entered in the IDE	Redeem it first: see Have an evaluation code?
You redeemed the code but the license dialog shows no SystemVerilog Studio license	The license went to a different JetBrains account (the email address in the redeem form), or you have not followed the link in JetBrains’ email yet	Follow the link in that email; in the license dialog, sign in with the account of that email address
The redeem page does not accept the code	A typing mistake, Plugins and SystemVerilog Studio are not selected, or the code was already redeemed	Copy the code from the evaluation email again and check the product; if it is still refused, write to Hello@SystemVerilogStudio.com with the code
No email from JetBrains after redeeming	It is in your spam folder, or went to the address you typed in the redeem form	Look in the spam folder of that address; if it is not there, write to Hello@SystemVerilogStudio.com
You cannot activate the license	The IDE could not reach JetBrains (no network, a proxy)	Set the IDE’s proxy under Settings (⌘, / Ctrl+Alt+S) | Appearance & Behavior | System Settings | HTTP Proxy and try again

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