System Requirements

PAtools Battery Software Suite System Requirements

Your PAtools development machines and the PAtools test generator machine must meet the following minimum requirements to run the PAtools Battery Software Suite. You must have a PAtools test generator machine if you are using PAtools as part of the Modern Battery Lab. Refer to The Modern Battery Lab for more information.

Table 1. PAtools Battery Software Suite System Requirements
System Component Requirement

Processor

Quad-core i5 equivalent or greater

Disk space

10 GB (30 GB minimum if using a locally installed SQL server)

RAM

8 GB (16 GB minimum if using a locally installed SQL server)

Screen resolution

1920 x 1080

PAtools development machine

Windows 10 or later

PAtools test generator machine

Windows 2010 or later (minimum)

Windows Server 2016 or later (recommended)
Note NI recommends using PAtools Battery Software Suite with SystemLink Enterprise as described in The Modern Battery Lab. If you choose to use SystemLink Enterprise, refer to What Do You Need to Use SystemLink Enterprise? for Kubernetes cluster requirements.
Note For the best performance of the battery application, NI recommends using a PXIe-8862 or PXIe-8881 as the PXI controller.

Device Driver Requirements

Additional drivers may be required for PAtools Battery Software Suite to connect and interact with your device.

Note Most of these drivers are not publicly available. To learn more, contact NI.
Table 2. Groups of Device Drivers
Function Device Drivers

Power Supply
  • RMX 412x
  • PSI9 (ElektroAutomatik GmbH Power Supply PSI 9000_10000 SCPI)
  • SM15K (Delta Elektronika DC-Power-Supplies)
  • Keysight RP7900

Water Conditioning Units
  • FEVCC (FEV CoolCon)
  • HUSPO (Huber Unistat series with Pilot ONE control)
  • LaudaIntT (Lauda Integral Cooling Unit)
  • WCUA (Water Conditioning Unit Autotherm)
  • WCUC_(Water_Conditioning_Unit_CTS)
  • WCUL_(Water_Conditioning_Unit_Linggong)
  • LWC (Lauda Water Conditioning Unit SUK150)

Climate Chambers
  • ACC (Angelantoni Climatic Chamber)
  • CSZ (Cincinnati Sub-Zero)
  • CTS (Clima Temperatur Systeme climate chamber)
  • WCCSI (Weiss Climate Chamber Simpati)
  • Thermaton SE-2000 and S32 (thermal chamber)

DC Cyclers
  • Heinzinger ERS-BIC
  • NHR 9200/9300
  • EA BT-20000 series (Elektro-Automatik)
  • Webasto AV900/ABC170/MT30
  • Nebula 05300B02-V010
  • VES3 (TLU Vehicle Energy System Version3)
  • TLU (Vehicle Energy System)
  • Kewell

Contactor Control
  • ACBox (contactor control)
  • DCBox (contactor control)

Communication
  • NI-XNET
  • AMCD3 (ASAM MCD3 ASAP3)
  • CANlog (Logging of CAN Communication)
  • GLP2 (SCHLEICH Safety & Function Tester)
  • OWI (LinkLocator One Wire ID-Scanner)

Simulation
  • BMPT (Battery Model Powertrain)
  • FPGA_VES (FPGA interface for Vehicle Energy Systems)
  • DHB (DrvHIL Burst)

Diagnostics
  • OBD2 (On-Board Diagnostics)
  • UDS (Unified Diagnostics Service)
  • FMM (Fluke Multimeter 8846A)

Module Creation
  • Template (Module template with PAscript)