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National Instruments News
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.jpg) Latest Upgrade Delivers XCP Support for Development and Verification of Next-Generation Electronic Control Units NEWS RELEASE – July 26, 2006 – National Instruments today released the ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit 2.0, extending the National Instruments LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI and Microsoft Visual C/C++ development environments to support measurement and calibration applications for designing and validating automotive electronic control units (ECUs). With the latest upgrade, automotive engineers now can use the toolkit to develop and verify next-generation ECUs with the Universal Measurement and Calibration Protocol (XCP). The ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit 2.0 delivers high-level, easy-to-use functions based on industry-standard XCP and CAN Calibration Protocol (CCP), which engineers can use to build their own customized measurement and calibration applications. Other measurement and calibration tools on the market use expensive turnkey applications that offer limited customization. Using the ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit 2.0 with the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, engineers can create highly specified ECU measurement and calibration applications, replicate their test systems and integrate the new applications into existing ECU test applications for a fraction of the cost. Engineers previously accessed the data in ECUs only through CCP. Building on the functionality of CCP, the Association for Standardization of Automation and Measuring Systems (ASAM) defined XCP, a new protocol specification for use in next-generation ECUs. The ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit 2.0 delivers XCP master functionality on CAN and Ethernet, giving engineers access to the newest and most advanced ECUs to acquire measurement data or adjust parameters inside the ECUs. The previous version of the toolkit integrated ASAM-defined (*.A2L) database files so engineers could read and write to ECU memory using the channel names defined in the database files. The latest upgrade expands this functionality with new properties for measurement and characteristics that supply more in-depth access to the ECU information stored in the imported *.A2L files. Engineers now can read both the channel name and the comments contained in the *.A2L database files in the channel selection dialog and choose specific channels faster and more efficiently. In addition, the ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit 2.0 includes the XCP-Spy utility, an application that monitors, records and displays XCP communication commands and parameters. Engineers can use the XCP-Spy utility to analyze the application’s XCP communication and verify accurate communication from the ECU master to the slave. The ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit 2.0 works with all NI CAN Series 2 interfaces on PXI, PCI and PCMCIA and provides support for the LabVIEW Real-Time Module for applications that require deterministic communication. About National Instruments For 30 years, National Instruments has been a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation – a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation. Leveraging PCs and commercial technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for test, control and design applications through easy-to-integrate software, such as NI LabVIEW, and modular measurement and control hardware for PXI, PCI, PCI Express, USB and Ethernet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,900 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. For the past seven years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America. |
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