IXXAT Virtual CAN Interface¶
Interface to IXXAT Virtual CAN Interface V3 SDK. Works on Windows.
The Linux ECI SDK is currently unsupported, however on Linux some devices are supported with SocketCAN.
The send_periodic()
method is supported
natively through the on-board cyclic transmit list.
Modifying cyclic messages is not possible. You will need to stop it, and then
start a new periodic message.
Bus¶
Configuration file¶
The simplest configuration file would be:
[default]
interface = ixxat
channel = 0
Python-can will search for the first IXXAT device available and open the first channel.
interface
and channel
parameters are interpreted by frontend can.interfaces.interface
module, while the following parameters are optional and are interpreted by IXXAT implementation.
bitrate
(default 500000) Channel bitrateUniqueHardwareId
(default first device) Unique hardware ID of the IXXAT devicerxFifoSize
(default 16) Number of RX mailboxestxFifoSize
(default 16) Number of TX mailboxesextended
(default False) Allow usage of extended IDs
Internals¶
The IXXAT BusABC
object is a farly straightforward interface
to the IXXAT VCI library. It can open a specific device ID or use the
first one found.
The frame exchange do not involve threads in the background but is explicitly instantiated by the caller.
recv()
is a blocking call with optional timeout.send()
is not blocking but may raise a VCIError if the TX FIFO is full
RX and TX FIFO sizes are configurable with rxFifoSize
and txFifoSize
options, defaulting at 16 for both.
The CAN filters act as a “whitelist” in IXXAT implementation, that is if you supply a non-empty filter list you must explicitly state EVERY frame you want to receive (including RTR field). The can_id/mask must be specified according to IXXAT behaviour, that is bit 0 of can_id/mask parameters represents the RTR field in CAN frame. See IXXAT VCI documentation, section “Message filters” for more info.