Specifications
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In the top half of this dialog you set up the message itself, where in the bottom half you can congure the
channels contained within this message.
Message setup
Looking at the top half, message conguration, here are the key things to know about:
Name The name of the message
Arb ID# ID number of your message on the CAN bus
Type Select between CAN standard and CAN extended from drop down list. Those two differs in
identier length. The standard length is 11 bits, and extended is 29 bits.
DLC DLC is the length of the message. It ranges from 1 to 8. As a standard, the DLC is set to 8.
Delay We can also enter the message delay in millisecond which shifts the time stamp of the mes-
sage back in time. This can be used to perfectly synchronize the analog data with CAN data
with compensating the delays in digital data transmission.
Channel setup
Now we need to add the channel(s) contained within this message. Click the ADD button and DEWESoft will
create a default channel and color code the rst 16 bits of the CAN message. Please enter the name and
units of this channel, and the scale factor (multiplier and offset). Also, make sure that the start bit and length
(in bits) are correct. Then click OK. You can see that in the screen shot below, four channels have been set
up within this one message. Two of the channels are just one bit long, whereas the other ones are