Vector CANape

CANape is a comprehensive software solution designed for automotive engineers and developers, facilitating real-time ECU calibration, data measurement, flashing, and diagnostics. It ensures seamless communication with control units through various protocols including XCP, CAN, LIN, FlexRay, and Ethernet. The tool provides high-performance data acquisition, parameter adjustment, and precise measurement capabilities within an intuitive platform.

Key Advantages:

• Universal Platform: Features open interfaces and supports a wide range of ECUs and sensors.
• High Precision: Enables accurate calculation of power values and measurement data evaluation.
• Automation: Includes an integrated programming language for process automation.
• Process-Safe Logging: Offers reliable data recording with CANape log / vMeasure.
• Collaboration: Functions as a collaboration platform for teams.
• Rapid Prototyping: Supports rapid prototyping for code and models.
• High-Performance Connectivity: Connects efficiently to ECUs and sensors.
• Extensive Measurement: Captures data from buses, analog values, and ADAS sensors.
• Parameter Management: Supports local and cloud-based parameter management.
• Model-Based Development: Integrates directly with MATLAB and Simulink.

Main Application Areas:

• Measurement: Comprehensive data acquisition from ECUs, networks, and ADAS sensors.
• Electric Vehicles: Detailed insights into e-drive, inverter, and battery processes via eMobilityAnalyzer.
• ADAS/AD: Logging data from various sensors and vehicle streams, visualizing detected objects, and enriching measurement data.
• Calibration: Online and offline adjustment of ECU algorithms and parameters.
• Data Analysis: Tools for visualization, automated analysis, and report generation, accessible on-desk and in the cloud.
• Diagnostics & Flashing: Accessing diagnostic data and services, and flashing new program versions.
• Data Logging: Recording diverse data types including sensor data, SOME/IP protocols, and ground-truth data.
• Model-Based Development: Direct access to ECUs and buses in MATLAB, and convenient stimulation of Simulink models.
• Test Bench: Provides essential measurement and calibration functions for test bench environments.

Highlights of Version 24:

• Expandability: Continuous expansion of measurement capabilities with ASAM CMP, supporting CAN, FlexRay, LIN, and xBASE-T1.
• Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV): Full support for zone controllers and HPCs, including dynamic SOME/IP data structures.
• ADAS Validation: Real-time visualization of free space and obstacles for rapid assessment of perception results.
• Logger Control Room: Centralized management and monitoring of loggers.
• Cloud Storage: 100 GB of cloud storage for logging projects and data exchange.
• Data Security: Reliable protection of recorded data through hard disk encryption.

CANape offers optional extensions to further enhance its functionality, including a Mobile UI for remote monitoring and control of logging processes.