Visualise, Edit, and Create ECU Description Files:
- Stand-alone editor to visualize, edit, and create ASAM-MCD 2MC (formerly ASAP2) files
- Automatic creation of variables from symbols in map files
- Automatic update of address information from map files
- Copying and pasting variables or groups between ASAM-MCD 2MC files
- Export and import of selected variables
- Directly accessible from CalDesk and RTI Bypass Blockset
Application Areas
An ASAM-MCD 2MC (formerly ASAP2) file contains all the information about measurement and calibration variables in the ECU. This includes information on the variables’ memory addresses and conversion methods, the memory layout and data structures in the ECU, variant dependencies, and communication parameters for the measurement and calibration interface. The automotive industry has widely adopted the ASAM-MCD 2MC file format as a de-facto standard.
The Variable Editor from dSPACE is a stand-alone tool especially tailored to the ECU software development phase. New ECU description files can be created from scratch or existing ones can be imported and modified. The editor is fully compatible with the ASAM-MCD 2MC standard. Both CalDesk and the RTI Bypass blockset provide direct access to the Variable Editor.
Key Benefits
The Variable Editor serves to visualise, edit, and create ECU description files using the same Windows dialogs as in the measurement and calibration software CalDesk. Any number of ASAM-MCD 2MC files can be imported into the editor, making it easy to copy and paste selected variables and groups into an existing or new description file. This makes it possible to generate subsets of existing ASAM-MCD 2MC files and to merge the contents of multiple files.
Using the integrated map file manager, linker map files can be assigned to an ECU description file to update address information at a click.
The Variable Editor is smoothly integrated in CalDesk and the RTI Bypass Blockset. This allows variables to be created and edited directly in the respective database without affecting the original ASAM-MCD 2MC file. In addition, it is easy to export and import selected variables and to exchange new or modified variables between users.