#Product Trends
CAN Monitoring Tool CANreal with advanced functionality
esd has added a useful functionality to its free CAN monitoring tool
CANreal. CAN messages and CAN data are no longer shown as
hexadecimal values, but displayed in plain text. In its current version
CANreal is able to read in DBC files.
DBC files have become more or less a general standard when it comes
to describing CAN messages in "CAN data base" format. A CAN data
base file is a textfile defining rules for the transformation of CAN data
into physical parameters. These are tangible and easily understood by
the user. Thus, they contain message names for certain CAN IDs,
names for process variables or signals, and describe the respective
data type, unit and scale factor.
With CANreal the user can always keep an eye on crucial signals and
data. The time display of up to 200 of these signals is presented clearly
and can be analysed and monitored online in plain text. Of course this
display can also be used offline for a subsequent evaluation of already
recorded data.
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