The comprehensive CAN monitor for Windows

PCAN-Explorer is a general-purpose monitor for overseeing the data traffic on a CAN network.

Individual messages can be provided with dedicated identifiers (symbols) to simplify their allocation.

There is integral support for Visual Basic Script (VB-Script), making it an easy matter to create custom tools for the CAN interface.

The integrated data logger can receive and record the data traffic on the bus.

PCAN-Explorer 4 takes the form of an automation server. COM objects can be addressed via dual interfaces, meaning that access is possible via the IDispatch interface or a COM interface.

Features

• Displaying all incoming messages complete with ID, length and data bytes
• Displaying incoming remote frames complete with number and receive gap
• Any number of messages can be included in a transmit list and sent at fixed intervals, manually or in response to a remote frame
• Saving and retrieving created transmit lists in order to emulate different CAN nodes
• CAN network and controller errors are displayed along with error frame counters
• Symbolic representation of messages by allocation of identifiers
• Symbolic representation of data within data bytes by flagging of bit groups and allocation of identifiers and data types combined with scaling and offset
• Displaying incoming symbols by message ID, qualifier byte and variable
• Support for float data types in accordance with IEEE 754, byte sequences in Intel and Motorola format, and Enum
• Configurable, integrated data logger
• Function keys can be assigned individual transmit messages or macros
• Macro creation in VB-Script, integrated editor
• Macros can access all program elements via the PCAN-Explorer object model
• Easy integration of external tools
• Integration of add-ins for enhanced functionality, e.g. stripchart (which is included as standard)
• Browser for networks, active symbols, symbol files, macros etc.
• Logging of timeout

The features of the integrated datalogger:

• Possible to use circular or linear data buffer
• Option to trace the logged data by single step the receive buffer
• Logging of errors possible
• Export logged data in textfiles and import them into Excel, MathLab ...etc
• Logging of symbols with filter function
• Filter logged data with different symbol files
• Status window to watch state of logging
• Max. log buffer dependent on hard disk space

PCAN-Explorer 4 have a easy to use VB-Script Interface which help you developing your own tools:

• Complete integration of the VB-Script language. All objects of the PCAN-Explorer could be used in the VBScript or example
• Send a e-mail when a temprature reach a limit or start a testtool when received a trigger Msg. Open Excel when a event come up and write the data into the sheet - use some graphic to show the information. VB-Script is completly integrated in the Microsoft Offiice line and the Windows operating systems
• Perfect to develop your own testtools for benchmark or testing CAN prototypes
• Your scripts could run without the PCAN-Explorer in front and could be start by batch files with a lot of command line options

Scope of supply

• PCAN-Explorer 4 installation CD incl. add in-line light
• Documentation in CHM format