Powerful CAN tool for development, testing and service

With the canAnalyser, Ixxat offers a very powerful, versatile tool for the development, testing and servicing of CAN-based networks. The canAnalyser is already very widely used, especially in the area of industrial automation, and is also being used increasingly in the automotive industry.

The software is available as standard and light version. In the standard version the canAnalyser has powerful functions covering many areas of application, such as online monitoring of bus traffic, transmission of one-off or cyclic messages and entire message sequences, parallel monitoring of several CAN networks and recording of CAN messages with various trigger conditions. Further functions enable the static evaluation of the message traffic, recording and display of bus load, graphic display of message contents over the time axis and the creation of small batch programs.

An integral part of the canAnalyser is the processing of message databases. With this, each CAN identifier can be allocated a message name and the signals transmitted in the data field can be interpreted and displayed as physical parameters in different ways. The canAnalyser also processes the widely used CANdb format.

Due to the open programming interface, the canAnalyser can be extended by the user's own modules or user interfaces. With common Windows development systems (e.g. Visual Studio.NET), new, independent modules can be developed and added to the canAnalyser. It is possible for users to create interfaces for their systems, or for certain devices or tools with system specific analysis functions.

The scripting host provides the canAnalyser user with a powerful interface that combines the advantages of graphic Windows programs with the flexibility of scripts. By using the scripting host the canAnalyser can be quickly and easily adapted to specific measuring and analysis tasks. This allows the user to simulate devices and protocols, or to test existing devices in the simulated restbus and to put them into operation. The scripting host supports the standard script languages C# and Visual Basic .NET. The incorporation of DLLs also enables the integration of further modules.

Further functions are provided by optional modules e.g. for the protocol specific display of messages in CANopen, DeviceNet or SAE J1939 based systems.

Further information on the canAnalyser is available at www.ixxat.com