Data Description

In the ECU application, three types of description files play a significant role:

• Description files for internal ECU parameters [more...]
• Description files for the various communication networks [more...]
• Description files for diagnostic services and data and for the flash process [more...]
  
  

CANape simplifies data handling considerably by letting you select data objects symbolically, independent of address and origin, and display them in physical units.

CANape already contains various viewers and editors for all types of description files to conveniently display and edit them. In addition, dedicated powerful authoring tools simplify the creation of A2L, DBC, FIBEX, LDF, ODX files and others for you.

An ASAP2 description file (A2L) contains all information on the relevant data objects in the ECU such as characteristics (parameters, characteristic curves and maps), real and virtual measurement variables and variant dependencies.

In complex ECUs, more than some 10,000 objects may be described in one A2L file. CANape lets you organize objects hierarchically into function groups, and this simplifies user control enormously. The integrated ASAP2 Editor lets you create, modify and update your ECU description files conveniently and efficiently. In performing these tasks, the ASAP2 Tool Set gives you another tool suitable for batch mode.

CANape contains an editor for convenient editing of ECU description files in ASAP2 format.
Without CANape, you can use the following tools – available separately – for support in working with ECU description files:

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