9 (36)
6
Reading the Log Data
The log data can be read in different ways:
•
manually from the USB memory storage device (see
Reading the Log Data Manually, p. 10
)
•
in the dashboard (see
Reading the Log Data in the Dashboard, p. 10
)
•
with IxAdmin (see
Reading the Log Data with IxAdmin, p. 11
Memory formats MDF4, BLF, CSV, and canAnalyser[binary] are supported. Data formats DBC,
ARXML, LDF, and Fibex are supported.
6.1
Structure of the Log File
Excel changes format of the log file while saving! To read the log file in Excel, import the
file to Excel and make sure that each column is formatted as text.
The log file can be opened with a text editor or imported to Excel. The name of the log file
contains the date and the time of the start of the logging in the format year/month/day and
hour/minute/second (Log_yymmdd_hhmmss.csv, e.g Log_200727_130506.csv).
The log file and the logged messages get a timestamp on the basis of the real time clock of the
CANnector Log. Due to handling reasons the log file is limited to two Gbyte. If the logging
exceeds this size, a further log file with respective name according to the date/time format is
created. If the memory of the storage device is full, the oldest log file is deleted. USB storage
devices of any size can be used.
Fig. 3
Log file
Column
Description
Bus
Bus that received the message
No
Continuous number of the logged messages
Time (abs)
Absolute time since the last boot of the device (format: s.ms.µs.ns)
State/Channel/Cycle
Not relevant for CAN, CAN FD, and LIN
ID (hex)
Message ID
Length
DLC of the CAN message
Data (hex)
Payload of the message
ASCII
Help text in ASCII (optional)
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