Announcements: FREE TI WEBENCH® Altium Connector Extension

The WEBENCH^® Design Center and WEBENCH^® Simulation Engine assist enormously with the development of power, lighting, filtering, clocking and sensing designs. Allowing you to generate, optimize and simulate designs, while making the necessary value-based tradeoffs to meet your design and supply chain requirements.

The free WEBENCH^® Altium Connector provides both an interface to the online WEBENCH^® Design Center and an offline interface to the WEBENCH^® Simulation Engine, allowing the following:

• Access WEBENCH^® Design Center from Altium and optimize your design.
• Export that design from WEBENCH^® to Altium.
• Simulate any using the fast WEBENCH^® Simulation Engine from Altium.

Details about using this extensions can be found in Altium Techdocs, here and more about WEBENCH^® from Texas Instruments can be found here. Below are installation and licensing instructions.

Installation and Setup

The extension is visible to subscription customers from Altium, DXP^™ > Extensions and Updates > Purchased. A WEBENCH^® license from Texas Instruments is required.

Installing License for WEBENCH^® Simulation Engine:

• When you run the WEBENCH simulation engine for first time on a design, it will ask for a node license.
• Attach the logfile showing the WBSE license not found and send an email to wbse@ti.com for a license. This file is needed for generating a WEBENCH^® Simulation Engine license.
• Once license is received, rename the license file as "node_license" (if not already done) and place it in <WEBENCH Extension Installation Directory>\WBSE.
  Usually you will find it in c:\ProgramData\Altium\Altium {2F259E6B-E4FF-4EB4-9ABC-063D5507D841}\Extensions\WEBENCH\WBSE\node_license
•  You are ready to use the WEBENCH^® Simulation Engine.

Note: The received license file may have some extension associated with it. The license file must be renamed to "node_license", removing any extension if present.