System requirements
 | Current components The Beckhoff Device Manager is constantly being updated and further developed. Always use the latest components in your application:
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Hardware requirements
- The Beckhoff Device Manager only runs on Beckhoff IPCs or Beckhoff Embedded PCs. It does not run on other IPCs/PCs.
- A prerequisite is the use of a Beckhoff image, as this contains special settings for using the Beckhoff Device Manager.
- The Device Manager is included in all current Beckhoff standard images under Windows Embedded (Standard and Compact).
Software requirements
- The current version of the Device Manager contains optimizations and improvements compared to previous versions. The current version of the Device Manager is available from Beckhoff Service.
- The Device Manager is usually not pre-installed on Beckhoff images with Windows desktop versions (Windows 7 Professional etc.). In this case you can install the Beckhoff Device Manager via a setup program. The Setup facility is only available for “big” Windows systems, not for Windows CE or Windows Embedded Compact. Windows CE systems cannot be updated. In this case always use the latest image.
- Non-Beckhoff images are not supported.
BIOS version
There may be further conditions for the Beckhoff Device Manager version and the BIOS version, depending on which features you want to use and which Industrial PCs or Embedded PCs you use.
Whether special features, such as reading of the CPU or mainboard temperature, are available in the Device Manager depends on the BIOS version in the device used, since the device must make the corresponding values available via a dedicated interface (BIOS API).
The following table shows the systems for which Device Manager values can not be read via the BIOS API.
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Beckhoff Industrial PCs of the same series may be equipped with different Beckhoff IPC mainboards, depending on the performance class. An exception are Embedded PCs of the CX series. The functions available for the Beckhoff Device Manager therefore depend on the integrated mainboard, not the IPC type.
Check whether additional information on the availability of individual features is provided in the description of the modules you require.
When using the Device Manager via a PLC library, note the system requirements of the PLC library.