Vehicle Network Toolbox 1.1

Introduction

Vehicle Network Toolbox™ lets you send and receive CAN packets directly from MATLAB® or Simulink®. It enables encoding, decoding, and filtering of CAN messages and lets you work with industry-standard CAN database files.

With Vehicle Network Toolbox, you can create test and analysis applications in MATLAB that use live data from CAN networks. You can also use live CAN data to validate Simulink models. Vehicle Network Toolbox lets you communicate with the CAN bus directly from MATLAB or Simulink so that you can correlate and synchronize CAN messages with other data and monitor CAN bus traffic. The toolbox provides full support for the following Vector CAN interface hardware: CANcardX, CANcardXL, CANcaseXL, CANboardXL, CANboardXL PCIe, and CANboardXL pxi.

Key Features

• MATLAB functions for transmitting and receiving CAN packets
• CAN communication blocks for connecting a CAN bus to a Simulink model
• Bit packing and unpacking functions and blocks for simplified encoding and decoding of CAN messages
• Message traffic GUI for visualizing live CAN network traffic
• Ability to filter and log CAN messages
• Support for Vector interface hardware and Vector CAN database (.dbc) files

Simulink model illustrating a host model for host-target CAN communication. Click on image to see enlarged view.