Bus Trace function
FC5101 and FC5102
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Version: 2.0
FCxxxx Monitor tab
Fig. 55: FCxxxx Monitor tab
PCI Slot/Irq
: Indicates in which logical PCI slot the card was found.
Search...
: Searches for all connected FC510x channels. Select those desired. In the case of an FC5102
both channels A and B appear. These behave in logical terms like two FC5101 cards.
Hardware Configuration
...: The hardware version number of the FC510x can be displayed here
Firmware
: Shows the current firmware version of the FC510x.
Firmware Update
...: Update the FC510x card firmware version here.
Baud rate
: The CAN baud rate is set here.
Ring buffer
: The size of the ring buffer is set here. The recording time for the ring buffer size that has been
set when the bus is fully loaded is also given.
Autostart
: If the Autostart checkbox is ticked, the monitor recording can be started when TwinCAT starts.
Otherwise the monitor software must be used to start it via ADS.
Monitor Software
The monitor software fetches the trace data from the FC510x card and places it as a file in the desired mass
storage. Only the DLL (TcRouterHelper.dll) is required in addition to the monitor program itself (CAN-
Monitor.exe). This must be placed in the same directory as the monitor program.
After starting the monitor program, the device ID of the FC5101 channel that will be used for the monitoring
must be selected.
Fig. 56: CAN Monitor - calling the options
