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Under review

Help text for adjust items in adjust menu

Pierre Fagrell 4 years ago in IQANdesign updated by Chris Litwin 9 months ago 5

It would be really helpful to be able to add a help text to adjust items.

This would ensure technicians/users have relevant instructions about what they are adjusting on screen.

The items with help text could show in a pop-up like when editing text parameters or in fullscreen like when adjusting input channels.

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Comment on the System page

DRG01 4 years ago in IQANdesign updated by Gustav Widén (System support) 3 years ago 0

Would it be possible to implement free Comment Fields on the System layout page, the same way as it is implemented on the FG pages

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moving average window size

Peter Nyman 5 years ago in IQANdesign updated by Andy Burky 4 months ago 1

Would be nice if you could use an integer parameter to set the window size of
a moving average.

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JFIN Source Address flexibility or GFIN Identifier wildcards

Vincent Thiele 6 years ago in IQANdesign updated by Florent Mirieu de Labarre 5 years ago 6

We work with NMEA 2000 devices and have had a great deal of issues with the dynamic Source Address nature of the standard. On startup the devices will jockey for Source Addresses and, depending on what's powered on or connected at the time, the Source Address scheme will be different.


We've made due so far with GFINs and using an ajust parameter for the Source Address to build the Identifier, but this requires one of two things to reconnect to a module: 1) blindly cycle through addresses until we find the right one, 2) connect a CAN analyzer to the bus and find the right address. Also, GFINs don't allow for the "Don't Care" option for priority that JFINs offer, which has also been a problem with manufacturers using different default values.


What I'm proposing is kind of the best of both worlds, where we can have the Identifier flexibility of the GFIN, but with the wildcard capability of the JFIN. That, or native NMEA 2000 support...

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IQANdesign and IQANscript available on IQAN store

Gustav Widén (System support) 6 years ago in IQANdesign updated 6 years ago 0

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It is now possible to purchase licenses also for the developer tools IQANdesign and  IQANscript on

IQAN store.

Previously it was only possible to get the licenses for  IQANrun and IQANconnect via the store, the licenses for the developer tools were ordered in the same way as hardware and shipped in boxes.


Since version 5, the tools IQANsimulate and IQANanalyze are free.

The PC tools that require licenses are:

  • IQANdesign
  • IQANscript
  • IQANrun



We are also rolling out a new IQANdesign upgrade subscription, to help drive the development of new and improved functionality for IQAN software. For more details, see the new IQAN software updates and licensing FAQ


The IQAN store also introduces a feature for retrieval of licenses bought via the store, and a way of updating existing licenses via the store.

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IQANdesign 4.04 released

Gustav Widén (System support) 7 years ago in IQANdesign updated 7 years ago 5

Highlighted features

MD4: External button controls for display pages

It is now possible to configure MD4 display pages for control with external buttons/encoders:

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Activate/Navigate with Encoder or key Up/Down.

Interact with controls with key Enter, Slider and State selector will lock focus. Abort interaction (Slider and State selector) with key Escape/Menu.

Remove focus frame with key Escape.

If only one control is added on a page, activation is not necessary, key Enter is enough.
External buttons/encoder currently only works on physical MD4 modules, simulator support is not implemented yet.



MD4: PIN code entry via keypad style touch panel

Key interface is selected when using touch buttons, with external buttons/encoder, the spinner is used.

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Import SPN/FMI from Excel

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SPN channels can now be imported from excel. Select a DM1 channel and choose Import SPN from the context menu or from the "File > Import" menu.


Property control of JFOUT and TSC1 source address

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Added possibility to select an IP (Integer parameter) as source address for JFOUT and TSC1.


All master modules must be connected to diagnostic bus

For clarity and consistency, all master modules are now required to be connected to the diagnostics bus. When creating new projects, the diagnostics bus is automatically connected.


Important problem solved

MD4 bluescreen showing watchdog reset in runtime

Triggered due to a touch chip communication problem, problem was introduced in 4.03. It is recommended to upgrade IQAN-MD4 applications to avoid this issue.



For additional details see release notes:

http://divapps.parker.com/divapps/iqan/Downloads/IQANdesign%204/ReleaseNotes4.04.25.htm

http://divapps.parker.com/divapps/iqan/Downloads/IQANrun%204/ReleaseNotes4.04.8.htm

http://divapps.parker.com/divapps/iqan/Downloads/IQANsimulate%204/ReleaseNotes4.04.14.htm

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Completed

Channel Scope

Fred Bland 8 years ago in IQANdesign updated by Ulrik Zakariasson (Software development) 7 years ago 3

I have been working with IQAN Design 4 for a few months now and would just like to say that having the ability to change the channel scope to public was a much needed addition. Some programs can get fairly large and any attempt at organizing the logic ended up in multiple FGIs and ended up being even harder to follow. That being said, I was quite used to the Function group output shortcut, shift+ctrl+o. It would be nice if there were shortcuts for the other scope options as well, or pressing the shift+ctrl+o shortcut to toggle through the scope options would also be handy. As long as I'm asking, It would be great to change the scope of multiple channels at a time.


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Under review

Qcode function block with multiple outputs

David Dufour 8 years ago in IQANdesign updated by Jean-Marc Zanni 5 years ago 5

Hi,

There is any plan to have a programming block to allow writing multiple external value. For example, update value to multiple parameters with the same Qcode. Actually, we have to write 1 block for 1 output.

It could be very interesting to be able to link external variable to be updated with this function block.

Thanks,

David

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Completed

Should logging of saturation warning be kept or removed?

Gustav Widén (System support) 8 years ago in IQANdesign updated 8 years ago 3

When the COUT regulator on an IQAN-MC2 or IQAN-XA2 is unable to deliver the commanded current, the COUT gets the status saturated.


Saturation happens when it becomes impossible to deliver the commanded current, this is when the supply voltage is too low, the coil resistance is too high, or the max current has been tuned too high.

The available supply voltage depends on the +BAT supply to the module, the internal voltage drop in the COUT, and also on the maximum pulse width, that varies with the dither frequency.


An example of when a saturation warning may be triggered is during cranking in a 24 V system, where it is usually possible to keep the IQAN system powered up. There, if a COUT is tuned close to the maximum current that can be driven through the coil during normal operation, if an output is kept on during cranking it would have the saturation warning.


The saturation status can be seen when measuring on the channel, for example in IQANdesign:

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The COUT status can be seen when adjusting in IQANrun:

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But the saturation warning also gets logged in the system log:

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We have been getting some comments about the saturation warning, that it in some application just fills up the system log without providing much useful information for design or service.


Does anyone think that saturation warning in the log is useful?

Or that it should be removed?


Remove saturation logging
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Keep saturation logging
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Completed

Finite state machine comment

Conrad Elektro 8 years ago in IQANdesign updated by Gustav Widén (System support) 3 years ago 2

It would be nice to have the possibility to add comments to fsm channels so I can add a comment by transitions.