System Requirements

This page provides the hardware and software requirements your workstation must comply with.

Hardware Requirements

Your system must meet the following requirements.

The recommended CPUs are the Intel Core i7 series or higher. AVxcelerate Sensors Simulator remains compatible with the Xeon Gold series. The Xeon Silver series should be avoided due to the low performances observed on workstations equipped with such CPUs.

For information on the most recently tested NVIDIA GPU cards, see the GPU Accelerator Capabilities PDF on the Platform Support section of the Ansys Website.

  • The machine(s) being used for the simulation must contain at least one NVIDIA GPU card. The recommendations are as follows:
    • minimum card series - QUADRO RTX (5000, 6000, 8000)
    • recommended card series - RTX A (5000, 5500, 6000)
    • highly recommended for HIL use cases - RTX ADA (5880, 6000).
      Note: GeForce graphic cards are not supported.
  • NVIDIA GPU devices with at least 16GB of on-card memory are recommended.
  • NVIDIA GPU Driver versions:
    Important: The Graphic cards listed in the Graphics Cards Tested PDF on the Platform Support section of the Ansys Website have been tested with the recommended driver versions mentioned below.
    Recommended version Minimum version
    On Windows

    572.60 WHQL (Release Date: Thu Feb 27, 2025)

    515.xxx
    On Linux

    570.124.04 (Release Date: Thu Feb 27, 2025)

    515.xxx
    Note: When updating your GPU driver, selecting the Custom (Advanced) installation option, then ticking Perform a clean installation is highly recommended.

Software Requirements

Compatible Operating Systems

Windows x64 / Linux x64

For operating system requirements, refer to the Platform Support by Application / Product PDF on the Platform Support section of the Ansys Website.

Compatibility between AVxcelerate Sensors Simulator and driving simulators

AVxcelerate Sensors Simulator is compatible with:
  • AVSimulation SCANeR™ version 2021.1 or version 2023.2 (available on Windows only)
  • CarMaker and CarMaker HiL versions 12.0, 12.0.1, 12.0.2, 13.0
Note: If you want to build a custom CarMaker or CarMaker HiL Connector executable including the AVXConnector, additional software and tools are needed. For more details, refer to the chapter Building a Custom CarMaker or CarMaker HiL Connector Executable in the User's Guide.

Other Software Requirements

For multi-machine simulations, you must install PowerShell version 7.2.4 on each follower workstation with the options recommended below:
  • Add 'Run with powerShell 7' context menu for PowerShell files
  • Add 'Open here' context menus to Explorer

For a proper functioning of AVxcelerate Asset Preparation and Speos Labs, set a dot "." as decimal separator and a space as digit grouping symbol.