IQAN Creative Studio 3.18 released
Highlighted features version 3.18
8448 TSC1, add message counter and message checksum
19820 Ethernet direct connection
- 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
- 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
- 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
24921 J1939: Add 500 kbps as selectable baudrate
25295 Allow smart device connections for MC3 when there are no safety related function groups
25261 MC3: Import/convert 2.x settings
Array and Channel Group function, Matrix function
Part of the problem is that we are collecting a lot of information from an external device and it needs to be distributed. It would be extremely useful if we could group signals into Channels(record) which would allow the efficient transfer of data from one function group to another without having this humongous plate of spaghetti, It would be wonderful if the receiving module would automatically inherit all the sub elements without having to recreate them.
Array/Matrix operation. Like wise it would be nice to have the ability to manipulate large quantity of data of the same type. We are dealing with Lithium batteries. We have 120 cells and 120 temperature data point to manipulate. Do you know how long it takes to create the code to read the incoming CAN messages to collect the data and then display them in groups? And God help you if you made a mistake and need to re-organize it. And forget about trying to calculate min/max and average. In almost any other language a for to loop and an array structure make dealing with such items a breeze.
md4 bilinear bar display
Can't find them on the MD4 display.
Is there one?
IQANdesign 4.01 released
Highlighted updates
New gateway module IQAN-G11 added
The IQAN CAN bus to bluetooth dongle IQAN-G11 added in IQANdesign. More information will follow when hardware and apps are released.
Qcode improvements
Show most sever error as status on row.
Improve Qcode auto-completion.
Include Qcode instructions in channel hint when Qcode is selected
Camera
Added module for Generic camera as alternative to IQAN-SV.
Functionality similar to IQANdesign 3.x
Show unit on scaled max and scaled min
For VIN, PWMIN, FIN, DFIN, PCNT and DPCNT
Also added unit to reset value for MEM, TMR. PCNT, DPCNT
New solution library examples
Added IQANdesign example files for:
- Start button NO NC (both project file .ids4 and simulation file .isa4)
- J1939 Fluid Property Sensor (FPS)
- J1939 particle counter IPDR (iCount)
Added IQANscript example files for:
- Get system info and clone (.iss4 script file, installs with IQANscript
.DBC file import
It would be fantastic to have a script to import .DBC files that would generate automatically the GFIN/JFIN GFOUT/JFOUT as well as the associated JPIN/GPIN JPOUT/GPOUT. That would literally save be weeks of typing and may mistakes!
Exporting .dbc that includes CAN routing frames
Hello,
I am currently using IQANdesign 6.08. The system I am working on is a multi-master system, and I am sending information over CAN E (J1939) to a third-party PLC.
I am using CAN routing to add certain frames from other modules onto CAN E. When I create a DBC file for this bus, none of the CAN routing frames are included in the DBC file. Can you advise if there is a way to include these frames?
Thank you,
Jordan
Delayed can connection during multimaster startup
I have a system with a MD4-5 display and a MC43 controller in 1qanDesign 7.04.
Between these two the master/diagnostics bus is connected via a wireless can repeater.
This works perfectly fine when the connection is established via the wireless repeaters. However when the modules statrtup together with the display, the display is started faster than the display, which causes no connection to the mc43 to be established even when the can connection is online.
If during startup the connection is online, but connection is lost and re-established, everything works fine.
I have already tried making the MC43 optional, but this didn't work.
There seems to be some check in the startup that causes this behaviour?
Is there any way to avoid this?
Add object number of selected element to the status bar.
Sometimes I find myself collaborating on a project with an engineer who is at a different location and have to test their program changes for them. It would be much easier to find a given channel or object that they are referring to if they could just give me an object number (which you can only find when doing a compare) for me to stick into the find window.
Can we get an item in the status bar next to the project name and version, which shows the number that would normally show up next to BEGIN or END in the project compare window?
MC/XC4x Series Transition to M24
I recently got an email notification that the MC/XC 4x series is being replaced by the M24 series controllers.
Is the non M24 series of controllers and expansion modules no longer available?
They claim to be compatible in form, fit, and function, but does the system have to be on IQANdesign V7.03 or higher to be able to swap a non M24 series controller with the new M24 controllers?
That is not ideal, as we have many systems out there with XC4x series expansion modules on V6-V7.02. Having to update master module programming to swap to the M24 series is not great and takes away one of the main advantages of the expansion modules (not having to update master module programming for field replacements). Especially since it can take a very long time to send projects that have different firmware than is on the master when using anything other than Ethernet.
This is correct that you'll need to have at least IQANedsign v7.03 to be able to add the IQAN-MC4x/IQAN-XC4x in your system. This is not optimal but the way needed to go with the new components in the IQAN-MC4x-M24/IQAN-XC4x-M24 variants.
The non M24 series is still available but since there is old components in them I would say that transitioning to the M24-version is something that's good to have done sooner than later.
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