WEBENCH® Tools: WEBENCH Licence

Hi Pradeep,

I have tried this many times. Altium reports that WEBENCH is activated when I select WEBENCH->Activate WEBENCH Altium Connector, but this has not been done. I have tried uninstalling WEBENCH addon and reinstalling, remembering to clear settings in the registry before reinstalling but this did not work either.

When I then run a simulation WEBENCH keeps reporting that there is no licence.

I have followed Altium instructions to the letter bt this has no effect.

If the Node_Licence is deleted from C:\ProgramData\Altium\Altium Designer {xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx}\Extensions\WEBENCH\WBSE then Altium creates a new licence file when WEBENCH->Activate WEBENCH Altium Connector is selected, this now seems to work...

...spoke too soon. I got to run the simulation once, this repeatedly reset the analysis with an error message "Aborted by user" so had to perform three fingered salute. When I closed the application and restarted the simulation would not run, simply reporting "Invalid Node Locked Licence for host..."

Also, during the simulation run, it was reported that the encrypted spice file could not be found, even though this is placed in the project file along with all of the other simulation files.

Regards,

Martin

Martin,

Thanks for sharing details. Can you also share the Altium Version which you are using?

Can you also confirm that you are using latest WEBENCH connector version 1.0.0.65 by clicking on WEBENCH extenstion (Navigate DXP->Extensions & Updates->Installed to locate WEBENCH extension)

Did you export the design which you are simulating from WEBENCH or did you create it by yourself? What errors are you getting while simulating in the message section. Can you include that. If you can share the design itself, i can look at it and suggest the fix.

I tested the WEBENCH extension with Altium Designer Version 16 and 17 and did not get any error or issues. It seems the issue is with the design itself and not with the WEBENCH extension.

Regards,
Pradeep

Pradeep,

Altium version 17.0.10, 1.0.0.65

There are two issues here. The original file that I am trying to simulate is contained in the zip Fred (03-05-2017 09-26-21).zip, this runs for one second and then aborts, restarts for one second and then aborts again, repeatedly.

The second issue is with a TI WEBENCH generated circuit that reports as per the image below, the design is found in webench_design_4675573_7_ad14_sim (11-05-2017 08-30-55).zip. This has generated an error message Error: .include file "pspice://../MAIN_BLOCK_CIRCUIT.FILTER_STAGE_1_SIM.A1_S1.WB_AMPLIFIER.enl" could not be opened.

Regards,

Martinwebench_design_4675573_7_ad14_sim (11-05-2017 08-30-55).zip;

Fred (03-05-2017 09-26-21).zip

Martin,

Please find attached the WEBENCH exported design for simulating closed loop frequency response. Its working fine.

webench_design_4675573_7_ad14_sim (5-11-2017 12-58-09 AM).zip

Here is the output.

Regards,

Pradeep

Pradeep,

not sure how much you know about electronics but the output is over 100dB down for a unity gain amplifier configuration, this is far from correct. We have done bench testing and the plot below represents real world measurements.

here is a plot from TI WEBENCH online for the same circuit;

and an example from FilterPro;

Regards,

Martin

Version:  4.3.0b3
Host:     NPD-CAD18.penlon.co.uk
CPU:      2 cores (User)
Mode:     64bit
Platform: w64
Run Date: 05-11-2017 11:10
Run Dir:  C:\
Temp Dir: C:/Users/mbund/AppData/Local/Temp/tispice.a04148


* ERROR * Unable to check out license for simulation. (LICENSE-1)


* ERROR * Invalid node locked license for host [6F2FC62B7317EB5FD8E15E46163305CDC97C00E2CD114A16064F6A1C53E792B0208DB6F71C88B9F18272258B3E47207C2AC7F111E7B840A1E3B92D989A6752EF].  Please send this entire error message when requesting a license file. (LICENSE-4)


* ERROR * Please install the new license file into the path: C:/ProgramData/Altium/Altium Designer {CB9B6E48-F156-427A-A849-B09A7E6D6BA1}/Extensions/WEBENCH/WBSE/node_license (LICENSE-5)


Simulation: FAIL

cpu(000:00:00.109) wall(000:00:00.445) - Total

after running WEBENCH for a single simulation, Altium/WEBENCH has overwritten the Node_Licence file and the simulator will not run.

I have copied the node licence again to C:\ProgramData\Altium\Altium Designer {CB9B6E48-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx}\Extensions\WEBENCH\WBSE and the following error was reported;

* ERROR * Invalid node locked license for host [6F2FC62B7317EB5FD8E15E46163305CDC97C00E2CD114A16064F6A1C53E792B0208DB6F71C88B9

F18272258B3E47207C2AC7F111E7B840A1E3B92D989A6752EF].  Please send this entire error message when requesting a license file. (LICENSE-4)

error log attached.

Regards,

Martin

Martin,

You don't need to check for this issue.

We are working on fixing the issue in WEBENCH generated design. It will be released soon.

Regards,
Pradeep