Vehicle Diagnostics News

2011-12-05: vFlash new Version 2.1 – Simply flash ECUs of many Vehicle Manufacturers

New Functions

Support of many manufacturer-specific flash specifications

OEM-specific Extentions
  • Ford: specific container format (vbf) and flash process
  • FIAT: specific data format (idx, prm) and flash process
  • GM: specific data format (gbf) and flash process

Bus Systems

vFlash supports flashing via

  • CAN
  • DoIP (Ethernet)
  • FlexRay

Data and Container Formats

  • Direct „native“ programming of data in Intel-Hex, Motorola-S and binary format, also compressed
  • Flash programming based on ODX-F containers
  • Support of vendor-specific container formats

Interactive and Remote

  • vFlash supports both, interactive flashing through the user interface, as well as batch processed flashing via a programming interface (C API)
Flash Attributes
  • vFlash allows now extending the user interface with template specific attributes. The user can enter for these attributes values, which can be passed to the flash script for further processing.