A Harmonious Relationship
Model-Based Development and CANape
Do you work with MATLAB / Simulink? Then CANape closes the gap between you and the ECUs and vehicles. Be it by exchanging files in the appropriate formats or by directly coupling the tools.

Direct Coupling Between the Tools
Use CANape as a source for your data processing in MATLAB
You can access the CANape API directly via M scripts. You get direct access to measurement data without having to worry about integrating CAN FD buses, for example, or complex ECU accesses via XCP or diagnostics into your MATLAB environment. You can change parameters in the ECU via your scripts and observe the changed behavior from the measurement data.

Shorten development cycles by measuring and calibrating your Simulink models
Your model runs in Simulink. No matter if in real time or slower or faster. Change individual parameters or load entire parameter sets. Measure any signal from the model. Connect CANape to the model and you can work with the model as if it were an ECU.
You don't have the entire model at your disposal because you receive a part from a development partner only as executable code? No problem. You can also access these parameters and measured variables.

CANape as Runtime Environment
Reduce the number of tools in your development environment
Simply generate executable code from your model with CANape as the target platform and use CANape as the runtime environment for your code in the vehicle, on the test bench and at any other workstation. You can link input and output data from the model directly with measured variables from ECUs and buses, for example, that you acquire with CANape. You can parameterize the model and measure data from it just as you would from any other ECU. Optimize the model's parameters and export them as an M script to return them to development.
Capture the function of the model through visualization in CANape.
To understand the model, visualize it directly in CANape. You don't need any other tools and can search for parameters in it, for example, and look at the current values and much more.

Using Simulink Algorithms in CANape
You have developed an algorithm in Simulink, e.g. to evaluate signals? Use it in CANape by generating code for the target platform CANape and generating a DLL. You can use this DLL directly in CANape and save yourself the trouble of implementing the algorithm by other means. The algorithm can be calculated during the measurement or used to analyze existing measurement data. The results can be visualized and saved in the measurement files.

File Exchange
Seamless data exchange accelerates development and provides process reliability
Measurement data import and export
At the push of a button, CANape converts measurement data into HDF5 format, which can be read directly into The MathWorks tool chain. If measured values are available in HDF5 format, they can be read directly into CANape without conversion.
Exporting parameter files
Parameter files are supported in CANape in various formats. To conveniently update parameter values in the MATLAB / Simulink workspace, parameter files can be exported from CANape as an M-script. After running the script in MATLAB, the workspace contains all new parameter values.
Exporting A2L and parameter files
You have a combination of A2L and parameter files. By exporting from CANape, you create an M script that, when run in MATLAB, creates all objects described in the A2L in the workspace and initializes them with the values from the parameter file.
Product Descriptions
CANape + MATLAB/Simulink = The perfect team for model-based software development
Whatever phase of model development you are currently working on, CANape's versatile interfaces to MATLAB/Simulink always provide you with the optimum measurement and calibration environment. Even in early development phases, Simulink XCP Server provides you with complete access to all the model's internal measurement and calibration values. With Vector vSignalyzer/CANape Target, you can generate a DLL from your model and integrate it in a real-time environment. CANape's Model Explorer allows you to visualize the model using your habitual Simulink display mode.
In this webinar recording (duration 65 minutes), learn how to conduct a CANape project from the early model development phase right through to use in the finished controller.
Target Group: Measurement and calibration engineers, function and software developers
- Windows 10/8.1/7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- The Simulink XCP Server is supported starting at CANape 8.0
- MATLAB Version R2016a
Downloads
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2021-03-04 Product DescriptionOption Driver Assistance
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2021-03-04 Add-On/FreewareVector ShellExtensions 5.0
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2021-03-01 Product DescriptionVX1000 System Components Poster
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2021-03-01 Service PackCANape 17.0 SP7
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2021-02-26 Product DescriptionProduct Information vMDM & Option vMDM
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2021-02-19 Service PackCANape 18.0 SP5
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2021-02-16 Product DescriptionvCDM Product Information
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2021-01-11 Add-On/FreewareVector MATLAB/Simulink MC Add-On 15.0 (64 bit)
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2020-12-18 DemoCANape 19.0 Demo
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2020-12-18 DemovMeasure exp 5.0 Demo
News & Events
- 2021-03-11 Webinar: New features of CANape 19
- 2021-04-01 Webinar: Managing Projects and Configurations
- 2021-05-06 Webinar: Creating Virtual Signals with the Function Editor
- 2021-06-03 Webinar: Simulink and CANape working together
Training

CANape Fundamentals Workshop
Vector offers many different opportunities for you to build your knowledge of CANape and broadening it. We recommend our CANape Fundamentals Workshop as an entry-level course in CANape. It is best to take this basic course before attending advanced training courses that are also offered. However, you may register for any of the courses independently.