CANdelaStudio: User-friendly Tool for Specifying Diagnostic Data

What is CANdelaStudio?

CANdelaStudio is a specification tool that aids in creating and editing formal vehicle ECU diagnostic specifications. It streamlines various process steps, ensuring consistency in the diagnostic development process. Key benefits include:

• Implementing the diagnostic software
• Automated conformity tests of the diagnostic software
• Data supply for diagnostic testers in development, manufacturing, and service
• Starting point for test sequences in production and service

Overview of Advantages

• Import and export capabilities with various exchange formats (ODX, AUTOSAR DEXT, CSV, RTF, HTML, A2L, XML, CDI) simplify data reuse.
• A template concept guides users, ensuring a consistent structure for diagnostic data across different automotive OEMs, promoting reusability.
• Consistency checks during input maintain high data quality.
• A diagnostics-oriented user interface ensures quick results.
• Support for diverse protocols on different networks (UDS, KWP2000, OBD, WWH-OBD, CAN, CAN FD, LIN, MOST, FlexRay, DoIP).

Functions

To manage OEM-specific differences, CANdelaStudio supports document templates. Each template represents an OEM-specific diagnostic specification, detailing allowable basic services and mandatory content for every ECU. These templates are provided by many automotive OEMs.

Highlights of Version 15

AUTOSAR

• Comfortable creation and editing of function inhibitions by events.
• Simplification using DEXT import for data transfer from process partners without a CANdela document.

Diagnostic Instances

• Direct and clear display and editing of diagnostic object properties.
• Multiple selection allows convenient modification of several objects.
• Flexible and quick display of many services in the fault memory.

Data Types

• Support for UTF-8 strings.
• Support of array data types larger than 64kB for image pixel data or snapshot data.

Data Exchange and Reports

ODX

• Import from and export to ODX (2.2, 2.1, 2.0.1) with extensive optional settings.
• Partial import of ODX data, e.g., only Layers and Services.
• ODXStudio View for viewing ODX data.
• Intelligent support of Object IDs (OID) and Text IDs (TID).

Reports

• Diagnostic specification export (RTF, HTML).
• Service overview export (CSV file).

CANdb and FIBEX

• Adoption of signals and conversion into data objects and DTCs.

AUTOSAR

• Simple import of signals and conversions from an AUTOSAR System Description.
• Export function for generating AUTOSAR Diagnostic Extract (DEXT files) compatible with AUTOSAR Classic Version 4.2.2 to 4.4.0 or AUTOSAR Adaptive.
• Automated linking of CANdela objects with corresponding objects in the AUTOSAR System Extract (SYS-EX).

Editions

CANdelaStudio Standard

Provides essential functionalities for diagnostic specification, utilizing the template concept to automatically link diagnostic data to services. Suitable for all active participants in the diagnostic process.

CANdelaStudio ViewX

Allows users to view, compare (Diff-function), and export diagnostic requirements and data, but not modify them. Ideal for authors of test sequences and users of test systems.

CANdelaStudio Pro

Supports multilingual requirements engineering with semi-automated translation of diagnostic data. Expandable dictionaries based on the TMX standard are supported, including Far Eastern languages. Suitable for international projects requiring multilingual specifications.

CANdelaStudio Admin

Enables creation and modification of diagnostic templates. Features include modifying protocol services, defining fault memory structure, modifying diagnostic classes, and translating template files using the TMX Editor. Responsible for the global diagnostic concept of a group of ECUs or vehicle model series.

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