EcuBus-Pro Quick Start

This guide shows the basic PCAN/PCAN-FD device path in EcuBus-Pro. Menu names and available functions may change between releases, so compare the steps with the current EcuBus-Pro documentation.

Prepare the Environment

1. Install EcuBus-Pro from its current release channel.
2. Install and verify the driver required by the selected CAN interface.
3. Connect the interface to a correctly wired and terminated test bus.
4. Confirm the required classic CAN or CAN FD mode and bit timing before opening the channel.

Create a Project and Device

1. Choose New → Create Empty Project.
2. Open Hardware → Devices.
3. Select the PEAK device type for a PCAN workflow.
4. Bind the device entry to the detected physical channel.
5. Enable CAN FD only when the hardware, application profile, driver, and EcuBus-Pro release all expose CAN FD for that channel.
6. Enter the approved arbitration and data-phase timing for the test network, then add the device.

Add and Use an Interactor

1. In the network area, add an interactor.
2. Assign the configured device to it.
3. Create a frame or import the project's database.
4. Set the channel, identifier, frame type, length, payload, BRS setting when applicable, and trigger mode.
5. Open the trace view before starting the device.
6. Start the configured channel and send a controlled test frame.

Troubleshooting

• If no channel appears, recheck the vendor driver and operating-system detection.
• If the channel starts but traffic fails, compare the arbitration and data-phase timing with every node on the bus.
• If error-frame detail is insufficient, use a second monitoring tool only when the driver supports concurrent clients and the additional tool does not change the active bit timing.
• Stop transmission immediately if the test network shows persistent bus errors.

Document the EcuBus-Pro release, driver, hardware, CANmeleon application and version when applicable, selected channel, bit timing, tested functions, limitations, and date.