Cadence SPB 16.

6 installation guide

Operating System:
Windows 2008 R2 Server; Windows XP Professional SP3;
Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit) except Starter and Home Basic;
Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit) (Home Premium, Professional,
Enterprise, and Ultimate).

Installing the Cadence License Manager on the server machine:

Login as Administrator to the PC before installing the software.
Plug in the hardware lock to the USB port of the computer.
(Please ignore the above step if the license is based upon MACID
of the computer).
Copy the license file provided or you can browse during the installation
Insert the SPB16.6 DVD
Run the setup.exe to install the License Manager and the Products
In the server machine you can install only the License Manager alone
where as in the client installation perform only Product Installation and
point the license path to server i.e. 5280@servername
If the same PC acts as server and client then perform both License Manager
and Product Installation on the same PC

Select the License Manager

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Select Next
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Accept the license agreement and select Next

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Choose the location for the license manager

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Select Next
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Select Install
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Browse for the text file license

(dont make any changes in the file)
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Select Next
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Select Next and cross verify the Hostname with

your PC name and the same Hostname has to be
given during client installation

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Select OK
Utility will decide whether to install the
Dongle driver or not. Till Page 19 the
process varies based on OS else page 20
will be the next step of installation

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Select Next

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Choose Flexid9 for USB & Select Next

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Reboot the PC
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Reboot the PC

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Check the status confirming the installation of

License manager
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Select Product Installation to install the

products

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Select Next
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Accept the license agreement and select next

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Select Complete if you want to install all the products else choose
Custom and provide control file or select the products to install
manually. Based on your selection the next few steps varies till Step
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Choose the user control according to your requirement. Choose
Anyone for default if there are no multiple users

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Choose the Installation location and then select Next

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Browse for the controlfile.txt which is given along with the

license file else choose the products manually in the next step
skipping this step

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Choose the products and then select

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Select PCB Editor footprint viewer if have

selected PCB tools in the previous step else
choose None and select Next

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Select Next
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Select Install
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Select Finish
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Go to Start-Programs-Cadence-Release 16.5-License file

configuration utility and provide the license path pointing to server

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5280 is the default port name and server is the PC

name where the Hardware lock/MACid is hosted
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Check the status and Select Finish

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