Shankar MOORTHY
Assistant Manager - Product development(Electronics)
Royal Enfield Global HeadQuarters(A Unit of Eicher Motors Ltd.)
#296, Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Sholinganallur, Chennai-600119, Tamil Nadu, India
M +91 9965247237
Creating CAN dbc file using CAN db++ editor:
File→ Create Database
Then the following window appears:
In that , click on CANTemplate.dbc to create the dbc file.
Now create the name to the .dbc file and click save.
So the basic template will be created as follows:
In the left side window , you will see the following options:
Under network - you can see the name of the dbc file which we have given:
Also it contains:
1. Tx Messages
2. Signals
You can edit the network by right clicking on the dbc file name → Edit network
Then click on the protocol which you want to create dbc file - Here it is CAN
You can see the following tabs in left side:
1. Networks
2. ECU’s
3. Environment variables (It is removed in newer version)
4. Network nodes
5. Messages
6. Signals
ECU list will be empty at first, whenever we add the node under the network nodes, under ECU
list - that node will get updated automatically.
Now click on network node → New
Now give the name for the node(ECU) as per your requirement
Now you can see the Name of the node under Network nodes:
You can see under ECU also , it get created:
Now to create the signal - Right click on the signal → New
Now you can create the signal and the given as below:
Same like that other signal is created as below:
Similar to the signal , you can create the message - Right click on Messages → New
Give the following message information:
In the same window - you have a second tab called “signals” where you can add signal
information.
Go to signals → Click on “Add” to add the signals which we have created under signals options.
If we click on those signals - that signal will get added under signals as shown below:
One signal gets added , and another signal is in the list.
If you want to remove a particular signal , you can click on the signal after adding and click on
remove to remove it from the signal list.
Now you can see under message tab - the message which we created get added:
If you double click on the signal , you can get the details of the signal:
You can see the message name , Signal name and the start bit of the signal.
To see the layout of the signal , click on the Layout option in the Node name under Messages:
To add these messages which we created into the Network nodes - either as Tx Messages or
Rx messages:
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Double click on the Message → Go to “Transmitter” , then click on the name of the ECU which
we created earlier and give OK
Since we have added this message signal as Tx Messages under Network nodes - Under Tx
Messages - You can see the name of the message signal which we created:
Now to add the Rx Message under the ECU node follow the steps:
First add a signal the same as how Tx signals have been added.
Add the signal details as below 👍
Create the message for the signals which you have created:
Create the message name like below and add signals which you have created in signals tab:
After that, to add the list of signals which we created, Right click the message name → Edit
Message
Click on the “Signals” → Add, then add the signals which you have created:
After that the signals get added , click on “Apply” and OK
Now we can able to see the list of signals get added under the Message name:
You can check the “Layout” by double click on the signal name
To add these signals as “Rx” message - Double click on the ECU name and click on “Mapped
Rx signal”
Click on the “Add” to add the Rx signals:
Now under Rx messages - the message signals get added below:
Now we can see , all the Mapped Tx and Rx signals 👍
