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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................... 6 1.1 DOCUMENT ORGANIZATION AND FORMAT .............................................................................................................. 7 1.2 TECHNICAL SUPPORT .............................................................................................................................................. 8 1.3 SUPPLEMENTAL DOCUMENTATION ......................................................................................................................... 8 2. INSTALLATION ..................................................................................................................................................... 9 2.1 REQUIRED OPERATING ENVIRONMENT .................................................................................................................... 9 2.2 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS .............................................................................................................................. 10 3. GETTING STARTED............................................................................................................................................ 11 3.1 APPLICATION OVERVIEW ..................................................................................................................................... 11 3.1.1 First step ................................................................................................................................................... 13 3.1.2 Global Options .......................................................................................................................................... 13 3.1.3 ONLINE / OFFLINE ................................................................................................................................. 14 3.1.4 Basic Viewing Display Features ............................................................................................................... 14 3.1.5 Advanced Viewing Features...................................................................................................................... 15 3.1.6 Basic Transmit Features ........................................................................................................................... 15 3.1.7 Advanced Transmit Features .................................................................................................................... 15 3.1.8 LIN Emulation with an LDF ..................................................................................................................... 15 3.1.9 Save and Load Configuration and Other Features ................................................................................... 15 3.2 INITIALIZING THE HARDWARE .............................................................................................................................. 16 3.2.1 Configuring the Ethernet interface ........................................................................................................... 17 3.2.2 Configuring the network channels ............................................................................................................ 18 3.3 DATABASE MENU ................................................................................................................................................. 20 3.3.1 Database Formats and Protocol ............................................................................................................... 21 3.3.3 Associate Database(s) ............................................................................................................................... 24 3.3.4 Merge Database ........................................................................................................................................ 25 3.3.5 Import database ........................................................................................................................................ 27 3.3.6 Non-Diag Frame Data .............................................................................................................................. 34 3.3.7 Non-Diag. Signal Data ............................................................................................................................. 39 3.3.8 Diag. Frame .............................................................................................................................................. 42 3.3.9 Unit Description........................................................................................................................................ 44 3.3.10 Virtual Device(s) ....................................................................................................................................... 44 4. CONFIGURATION MENU .................................................................................................................................. 46 4.1 TRANSMIT FRAME TABLE (TFT) .......................................................................................................................... 47 4.1.1 Selecting frames for transmission ............................................................................................................. 47 4.1.2 Editing data in frames ............................................................................................................................... 51 4.1.3 Assigning Transmission Channels, Hot Keys, Types ................................................................................ 52 4.1.4 Associate Frame........................................................................................................................................ 54 4.1.5 Saving Transmit Frame Table Configurations.......................................................................................... 55 4.1.6 Transmitting frames .................................................................................................................................. 55 4.1.7 Transmit Frame Table Online Editing ...................................................................................................... 55 4.2 BUFFER CONFIGURATION ..................................................................................................................................... 56 4.3 TRIGGER CONFIGURATION ................................................................................................................................... 58 4.3.1 Frame Trigger (On TimeOut) Configuration ............................................................................................ 61 4.3.2 Trigger On Engineering Value Configuration .......................................................................................... 63 4.3.3 Event Trigger ............................................................................................................................................ 65 4.4 HARDWARE CONFIGURATION ............................................................................................................................... 65 4.5 FILTER TABLE ...................................................................................................................................................... 66 4.5.1 Adding to the Filter Table ......................................................................................................................... 66 4.5.2 Other Filter Table Configurations ............................................................................................................ 69 4.5.3 Saving and Loading Filter Table Configurations ..................................................................................... 71 4.5.4 Enabling and disabling the filter mechanism ............................................................................................ 71 4.6 FRAME RESPONDER .............................................................................................................................................. 72 3