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Features and Advantages:
CANalyzer's powerful functionality together with the functional expansions for CANopen gives the user a tool that can be used both in the development of CANopen systems as well as their startup and maintenance. CANalyzer.CANopen makes high-performance, CANopen-specific functions for analysis, simulation, testing, and configuration available to the developer. This is a prerequisite for reliable and efficient interaction with CANopen networks.
Functions:
CANalyzer.CANopen extends the functionality of the CANalyzer to include:
- Protocol-specific representation in the Trace Window
- Protocol monitoring
- Graphical representation of devices
- Network management, guarding, heartbeat
- Setting the baud rate and node ID via Layer Setting Services
- Use of the CiA standard file formats EDS/DCF
- Configuration of CANopen devices
New functions of Version 7.2:
Color highlighting of CANopen services accelerates analysis:
- Bus analysis is simplified considerably by using separate colors for different CANopen services in the Trace Window. A font and background color may be defined for each category to recognize messages easier and faster. Message categories include: SDOs, PDOs, EMCY-, SYNC- and NMT messages. CAN messages that are part of a SDO protocol, for example, are detected and shown in the appropriate color.
Optimized Network Management:
- NMT commands are now sent directly from the CANalyzer toolbar. You can specify whether the command should be sent globally or to a specific node here.
Signal support provided in device access:
- Per CiA311, EDS files can be saved in XML format. One aspect of this standard is that it permits subdividing an object’s value into signals. Accordingly, a digital 8-bit input value can be described by 8 separate signals. In accessing a device it is possible to perform specific manipulations and display object values via signals, provided that they have been described in the EDS file.
Node-specific saving of databases improves organization:
- Besides the existing global saving of databases, you can now also save them node-specifically. In node-specific saving, a separate CAN database is created for each node. It contains all messages that can be assigned to a node. This leads to considerably better organization, making it easier to select messages or signals.
