PAtools New Features and Changes
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PAtools New Features and Changes
Learn about updates, including new features and behavior changes, introduced in each version of PAtools.
PAtools 2025 Q4 New Features and Changes
Learn about new features, behavior changes, and other updates in PAtools 2025 Q4.
PAconfigurator
- Added ability to add input parameters to a DUT type using a table.
- Added ability to upload DUT types to SystemLink.
- Added ability to upload PAtools test stations to SystemLink as virtual systems.
- Added ability to select a SystemLink workflow when defining an execution workflow.
- Added the ability to update a module and all module dependencies at once.
PAcontroller
- Added ability to open PAcontroller and userboxes offline.
- Added ability to create a test station or discover test stations in PAcontroller.
Support for Real-Time Systems
- Added NI Linux Real-Time support for the following serial devices:
- PXIe-4830
- PXIe-4831
- Added NI Linux Real-Time support for the Enclustra ME-PE1-R1 FPGA device.
- Added NI Linux Real-Time support for the following Hilscher PROFIBUS devices:
- CIFX-50-DP
- CIFX-80-DP
- Added NI Linux Real-Time support for the following Hilscher PROFINET devices to
be a master:
- CIFX-50-RE
- CIFX-80-RE
PAtools 2025 Q3 New Features and Changes
Learn about new features, behavior changes, and other updates in PAtools 2025 Q3.
Support for Real-Time Systems
- Added support for a seed-key algorithm to execute when using an XPC protocol.
- Added NI Linux Real-Time support for PAcluster.
PAtools 2025 Q2 New Features and Changes
Learn about new features, behavior changes, and other updates in PAtools 2025 Q2.
PAconfigurator
- Added new editors for EtherCAT Master and PAbasic.
- Added a CAN DBC importer.
- Added functionality for defining certain DUT parameters as product-supplied inputs to a test when creating a test using the DUT in PAtools.
- Added functionality to version DUTs.
- Added support for SystemLink Enterprise calendar scheduling for slot selection.
- Added functionality to generate reloadable objects.
- Added support for hosting the PAtools Microsoft SQL database on the Microsoft Azure cloud.
- Removed the concept of multiple configurations per DUT. Each DUT can have only one configuration.
- Added functionality to configure custom selection lists in value tables
PAcontroller
- Added drag-and-drop functionality for moving variables from the variables grid into graphs and other UI elements.
PAscript
- Added support for posting alarm statuses in SystemLink Enterprise.
- Added a PAscript language extension for manipulating JSON strings.
Support for Real-Time Systems
- Added NI Linux Real-Time support for ADV-PCI 1602 (Modbus RTU).
- Added NI Linux Real-Time support for UPS Serial Device.
PAtools 2024 Q4 New Features and Changes
Learn about new features, behavior changes, and other updates in PAtools 2024 Q4.
PAconfigurator
- Added new editors for PAscript, PAgraph++, and EtherCAT Hotconfig.
- Added support to upload Test Procedures, Test Stations, and DUTs to SystemLink.
- Added support to define certain Test Procedure and DUT parameters as inputs to a test when you create a test using this Test Procedure or DUT in PAtools or SystemLink.
- Allow Test Procedures to be versioned.
- Allow hosting the PAtools Microsoft SQL database on the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud.
- Removed the ability to create a Test Environment.
- Removed the Media Library feature.
- Removed the cmp folder for Test Component generation. The Test
Component is now generated in the following folders:
- From the test landing page: vspN/cmp/<Socket_name>/test_package
- From the development page: vspN/cmp/test_package
Support for Real-Time Systems
- Install PAtools for NI Linux Real-Time using MAX, SystemLink, and a USB drive.
- Removed support for QNX operating systems.
Verwandte Inhalte
- Creating a DUT Type
Create a DUT type to create a DUT template. Creating a DUT template allows you to easily configure individual DUTs for a test.
- Creating a Test Station
Create a test station in PAtools for each test station in your lab.
- Adding an Execution Workflow
An execution workflow defines how a SystemLink test plan should be generated, deployed, started, and stopped.
- Converting Multiple Modules
Convert multiple legacy modules at once.
- Opening a Workspace in PAcontroller Offline
You can open a workspace in an offline version of PAcontroller when you start PAcontroller Offline <version> .
- Opening PAcontroller Offline from PAconfigurator
If you launch PAcontroller from PAconfigurator, you can view userboxes in a workspace offline.
- Discovering Test Stations
Scan local hosts and configured hosts to find test stations in PAcontroller.
- Adding a Test Station in PAcontroller
If you are running PAcontroller on a machine without access to the PAtools database, create a locally stored test station in PAcontroller.
- Configuring Hardware
Configure all hardware that the real-time system starts. Add new Hardware nodes for each device and hardware interface that the real-time system uses.
- Configuring FPGA
Configure the FPGA card in PAtools PCU Configuration.
- Configuring the Channels Group
Configure the channels group to set up communication between the device drivers and the test.
- Configuring PROFIBUS
Configure PROFIBUS for standard fieldbus communication.
- Configuring the PROFIBUS Group
Configure a PROFIBUS master and PROFIBUS slaves to make your data available to an external controller.
- Configuring PROFINET RT
Configure the PROFINET RT card in PAtools PCU Configuration.
- Configuring the PROFINET RT Group
Configuring a PROFINET RT controller and a PROFINET RT device allows you to make your data available to an external controller.
- Creating a Shared Object for the Seed-Key Algorithm
An extension to the XCP editor allows you to create a shared object for the seed-key algorithm. The algorithm in the shared object or shared library runs on an Intel CPU.
- Configuring PAcluster
Configure PAcluster to distribute the execution of test components across multiple PXI controllers.
- Configuring the Component Slot Configuration Group
Configure the componentslot-configuration group to define the slots that a test uses for the connected test components.
- Configuring Test Components
Use the test wizard to configure a DUT, test procedure, and application type for the new test. The test wizard automatically filters compatible DUTs, test procedures, and application types as you configure each component.
- Configuring Simple Selection Lists
Configuring a simple selection list allows you to select preconfigured items when defining a table.
- Versioning DUTs
Create a version of an existing DUT to upload the DUT to SystemLink and improve the traceability of changes to DUT input parameters.
- Versioning Test Procedures
Version a Test Procedure for improved traceability of changes or to create Test Procedure versions with unique input parameters. You must version a Test Procedure to upload a Test Procedure to SystemLink.
- JSON Data Types and Functions
Use the PAscript JSON functions and the data types to build JSON strings.