Any info about support of AS running on windows 10/11 for ARM architecture?
Hello,
I’ve been working on an Automation Studio project for years, using MacBook Pro that uses M1Max. B&R doesn’t officially support VM environments, but below have been tested in my development environment for years.
- Create remote install package
→ ok - Connect between AS and PLC
→ ok but manually (DO NOT CLICK BROWSE see below) - Interaction with Scene Viewer
→ ok - Interaction with ABB Robot studio
→ ok…but, not sure (The exhibition demo using ABB robots and ACOPOStrak worked well.) - SuperTrak
→ TrakMaster not work on Windows for ARM (Last check at Nov 2023. I’m not SuperTrak engineer…) - ACOPOStrak
→ ok - ACOPOS 6D
→ ok but, PMI tool not work - mappVision
→ ok (Last check at Feb 2024)
As shown in the image below, clicking Browse in Online-Settings causes an error. Some PVI-SNMP-related drivers seem to depend strongly on x86. It would be great if PVI-based libraries are update to unified binaries
Best Regards,
As far as I know there are currently no plans to support ARM architecture CPUs
I’ve been developing on an M2 Macbook using parallels since mid 2023 without any issues. As @seunghwa said, the only thing that doesn’t really work is the browsing in the online settings view.
Windows 11 arm can run most 32-bit applications without issue, when you get to 64bit applications you usually need to make sure that it was compiled for ARM64 specifically before installing.