June 2007
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This file contains information about the ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit Software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and LabVIEW™ Real-Time (RT). Information in this file is in the following sections:
The ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit User Manual is the primary reference document. This manual includes an introduction to the CAN Calibration Protocol (CCP) and Measurement and Calibration Protocol (XCP). It also explains how to get started with application development and a complete reference for all ECU M&C Toolkit functions.
The ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit User Manual is in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). You can download the Acrobat Reader for free at www.adobe.com.
You can open the ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit User Manual from Start»Programs»National Instruments»ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit Manual.
Links to the NI-CAN Hardware and Software Manual are in the online help for each NI-CAN function within the National Instruments LabVIEW and LabWindows™/CVI™ development environments.
Online help for the NI-CAN features within Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX) is in the MAX Help Topics menu. The MAX help topics for NI-CAN also include a link to the NI-CAN Hardware and Software Manual.
Your National Instruments software requires activation to access all features. Activation is simple, and you can activate your software 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Follow the instructions in the License Activation Wizard at the end of the ECU M&C Toolkit installation procedure.
To obtain a license, complete the following steps:
Further information about how to activate the ECU M&C Toolkit 2.1 is in the activation.pdf document on your CD. If you do not enter a valid license, the ECU M&C Toolkit 2.1 operates in a 30-day evaluation mode.
National Instruments offers three ECU M&C Toolkit licenses:
The following sections describe the scope of each license in accordance with the National Instruments Software License Agreement in the <ECU M&C Toolkit>\Doc\License directory. For additional information or questions about your specific licensing needs, contact your local National Instruments representative.
Note: This section describes the ECU M&C Toolkit licensing policies. This document does not replace the National Instruments Software License Agreement, and you should use it only as a reference.
The ECU M&C Toolkit Development License for Windows allows you to install the toolkit and develop and run applications on a single Windows machine.
If you are redistributing the ECU M&C Toolkit or any of its components, you must purchase the appropriate deployment license from National Instruments for each target machine:
When you run the ECU M&C Toolkit for the first time, it prompts you to activate a license for the product. If you do not activate a valid license, the ECU M&C Toolkit runs in evaluation mode and continues to prompt you to activate a license on each subsequent launch.
When you run the ECU M&C Toolkit in evaluation mode, the software behaves as a fully functional development system for 30 days. ECU M&C Toolkit evaluation software expires after 30 days. You can activate your ECU M&C Toolkit license at any point during the 30-day evaluation period. For more information about activating your product, refer to ni.com/activate.
This version of the ECU M&C Toolkit software supports only the following operating systems:
For more information about using National Instruments hardware and software products with Windows Vista, refer to ni.com/vista.
National Instruments recommends using Service Pack 2 when using the USB-847x interfaces in hyperthread or multicore/CPU environments on Microsoft Windows XP.
This version of the ECU M&C Toolkit software supports all NI-CAN Hardware that NI-CAN 2.5 or higher supports on Windows and LabVIEW RT.
The ECU M&C Toolkit software supports only National Instruments CAN hardware products. For information about software for CAN products from other vendors, refer to the documentation you received with those products.
Note: PCMCIA-CAN and PCMCIA-CAN/2 interfaces are not supported on the 64-bit version of Windows Vista.
This version of the NI-CAN software supports the following development environments:
The ECU M&C Toolkit software simulates an ECU. All examples of the ECU M&C Toolkit are preconfigured to communicate with the ECU simulation using the ASAM 2MC CCPECU.A2L file if using CCP or the XCPECU.A2L file if using the XCP Slave Simulator.
LabVIEW users using CCP can find the ECU simulator, seed-key DLL, and corresponding A2L file at <National Instruments>\<LabVIEW>\Examples\ECU MC\CCPECU.LLB.
LabVIEW users using XCP can find the ECU simulator, seed-key DLL, and corresponding A2L file at <National Instruments>\<LabVIEW>\Examples\ECU MC\XCPECU.LLB.
MS VC users using CCP can find the ECU simulator, seed-key DLL, and corresponding A2L file at <National Instruments>\ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit\MS Visual C\CCPECU.
MS VC users using XCP can find the ECU simulator, seed-key DLL, and corresponding A2L file at <National Instruments>\ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit\MS Visual C\XCPECU.
To use the ECU M&C Toolkit on a LabVIEW RT system, you must download your ASAM 2MC database (*.A2L) file to the RT target. The LabVIEW Real-Time Engine running on the PXI LabVIEW Real-Time controller supports a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server. You can access the LabVIEW RT target FTP server using any standard FTP utility for transferring files to and from the hard drive or CompactFlash. For further information about how to download your A2L file to the RT target, refer to LabVIEW Real-Time (RT) Configuration in the ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit User Manual.
The ECU M&C Toolkit 2.1 release adds the following features:
The ECU M&C Toolkit 2.1 release adds the following features:
ECU M&C Toolkit 2.1 supports CCP Version 2.1.
ECU M&C Toolkit 2.1 does not support symbolic conversion tables for characteristics and measurement channels.
NI-Spy monitors function calls to the ECU M&C Toolkit API. This tool helps in debugging programming problems in the application. To launch this tool, open the Software branch of the MAX Configuration tree, right-click NI Spy, and select Launch NI Spy. If more than one National Instruments driver is installed on your computer, you can specify which APIs to spy on at any time. By default, all installed APIs are enabled. To select the APIs to spy on, select Spy»Options, select the View Selections tab, and select the APIs under Installed API Choices.
The following LabVIEW example VIs do not run under LabVIEW RealTime and LabVIEW Base:
To make these examples run, remove the subVI call from 3DDisplayWrapper.vi in MCCharacteristicsEditors.llb.
If you are using an NI USB-8473 or NI USB-8473s, the ECU M&C Toolkit is based internally on the NI-CAN Frame API. For this reason, the following properties are not available for the GetProperty function:
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