CAN Simulator

[cc77]

Hey guys,

I'm working on a project where I need to be connected to a CAN network and get CAN OBDII messages. For troubleshooting the code, it is really difficult to be connected continuously. Does anyone know of a CAN OBD2 messages simulator or a VI that can generate random messages?

Thanks!

[AJost · Accepted solution]

Hi CC,

Depending on what you want to troubleshoot you have a couple of options in my opinion:

1) buy a physical CAN simulator: There is cost/time involved, but this will allow you to test all parts of your code and HW

2) I am not aware of a VI or software which you could use out of the box. But as you have a functioning CAN network, you could just record a couple of messages and save them somewhere on your drive. The you just need a VI which reads a random message from that file.

This shouldn't be to much work and would allow you to test everything not HW related on your program.

Andreas

[Gibson · Accepted solution]

The Automotive Diagnostic Command Set includes an ECU Simulator which offers all supported Diagnostic Protocols as well as Tranport Protocols to allow testing of various services.

[AJost]

Thanks Gibson,

I didn't know about this feature of the ADCS toolkit

[Gibson]

just check in the example finder

Demo ECU in Example Finder

[cc77]

Thank you Gibson, 

I will check it out today.