Tools

NI-CAN

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Tools

NI-CAN provides tools that you can launch from MAX.

  • Bus Monitor—Displays statistics for CAN or LIN frames. This provides a basic tool to analyze CAN or LIN network traffic. Launch this tool by right-clicking a CAN or LIN interface (port).
  • Test Panel—Read or write physical units for a CAN channel. This provides a simple debugging tool to experiment with CAN channels. Launch this tool by right-clicking a CAN channel.
  • NI-Spy—Monitor function calls to the NI-CAN APIs. 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.
  • FP1300 Configuration—FieldPoint 1300 is the National Instruments modular I/O product for CAN. If you have installed the software for the FP1300 product, launch this tool by right-clicking a CAN interface (port).
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