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configurations with 125 Kbit/s, 250 Kbit/s, 500 Kbit/s, and 1000 Kbit/s) initialize all 6 CAN
interfaces with the selected baud rate and allow to extend the transmission range of the six
available CAN busses via Ethernet. For the provided configurations two CANnector Range devices
(Master and Slave) are required. The Master device establishes a connection to the Slave device
via Ethernet and forwards all CAN data transparently from Master to Slave and vice versa. By
default the Master configuration with 250 Kbit/s is loaded. An application on a Windows PC that
is based on the Ixxat VCI driver can be extended with one CANnector Range, that is connected to
the Windows PC. In that case the CANnector Range acts as remote PC interface connected via
Ethernet.
4.2.3
Software for Configuration and Visualization
The CANnector provides various possibilities to manage configurations.
Dashboard
With the dashboard, that is accessible via a web browser and the IP address, the state of the
CANnector and the connected bus systems can be monitored, the different basic configurations
can be selected and downloaded to the device, log files can be uploaded to the PC, and data can
be visualized.
ACT Tool
The ACT is Windows based and allows the easy creation of configurations with or without bus
description files via drag and drop. The ACT tool provides further configuration possibilities
depending on the device variant (e.g. changing message content, trigger for messages).
IxAdmin
IxAdmin is included in the ACT. With IxAdmin the different basic configurations can be selected,
started and stopped and downloaded to the device. Changing baud rate settings and uploading
log files to the PC is also possible as well as updating the firmware and managing the connected
devices.
CANnector Installation Guide
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