HMS: VCI V4¶

Vendor information

Vendor	Web page	Product name	Version
HMS Technology Center Ravensburg GmbH	https://www.hms-networks.com/ixxat	VCI V4	4.0.1187.0

File format	Comment
*.asc
*.mf4	BUSACCESS - CAN(-FD) ports support MDF4 bus logging only. XCP ports support signal-based MDF4 recording.
*.pcapng	BUSACCESS - CAN(-FD) ports will use linktype=227. The resulting files cannot be processed by trace analysis.

Operating system	Support
Windows	✓
Linux

Ports¶

Info

Ports marked with ✦ are part of the Add-on ecu.test calibration (subject to a separate license)

This interface allows, by means of hardware, direct CAN and CAN-FD bus access. It supports the test steps read signal, read/write signal group as well as monitor and supports signal recording, Raw diagnostics with KWP2000 over ISO-TP, the Mini residual bus simulation and Additional functions of the close-to-hardware bus connections.

Supported drivers

The VCI V4 driver must be installed for use in ecu.test. The driver is available on the manufacturer’s website.

Limitations

Controllers are opened exclusively. Parallel use of the same CAN(-FD) controller in ecu.test and other applications is not supported.
The timestamps for the time of reception of CAN(-FD) frames are based on the time of the controller start.

Tested hardware:

Name	Available if	Default value	Valid values	Type	Description
Hardware			[‘<online query>’, ‘<no toollib start>’]	string	Choose the hardware which should be used
Timeout for tool call ❲in sec.❳		‘600’		string	Timeout after which a tool call is aborted.