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CANREC User Manual
Global best solution for CAN-bus accidental faults elimination
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UM12121201
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Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd.
V1.00
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CAN-bus recording, accidental fault troubleshooting
CANREC CAN-bus recording analyzer is developed for
accidental faults troubleshooting. It is used to record
multi-channel CAN-bus data and waveform for long time.
Users can find out accidental CAN-bus faults during the
long-time operation.
Date: 2014/11/28
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  • Page 1 CANREC User Manual Global best solution for CAN-bus accidental faults elimination User Manual User Manual V1.00 Date: 2014/11/28 UM12121201 Item Content Keywords CAN-bus recording, accidental fault troubleshooting CANREC CAN-bus recording analyzer is developed for accidental faults troubleshooting. It is used to record Abstract multi-channel CAN-bus data and waveform for long time.
  • Page 2 Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Revision History Revision History Version Rev. Date Modifications Created the document (software version number: VOL01 2014/11/28 1.0.3.1928). User Manual V1.00 Date: 2017/05/22 ©2017 Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Contents Contents Chapter 1: About this document................1 1.1 Transport and Storage....................1 1.1.1 Transport........................1 1.1.2 Storage........................1 1.2 Maintenance........................1 1.3 Deactivate and Handle....................1 1.4 Recycle and Handle......................1 Chapter 2: Safety Precautions................2 2.1 Introduction........................
  • Page 4 Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer 5.7 CANREC Analysis Software Function Introduction..........26 5.7.1 Software Installation....................26 5.7.2 Basic Software Operation..................26 5.7.3 Open working area....................27 5.7.4 Message........................27 5.7.5 Quick Search......................27 5.7.6 Waveform.........................28 5.7.7 Eye Diagram......................29 5.7.8 FFT Transform......................

  • Page 5: Chapter 1: About This Document

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Chapter About this document Chapter About this document 1.1 Transport and Storage 1.1.1 Transport  Keep the instrument in its original packaging. Avoid heat and moisture during transport: do not exceed the temperature range ...

  • Page 6: Chapter 2: Safety Precautions

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Chapter Safety Precautions Chapter Safety Precautions 2.1 Introduction The instrument may be used under high voltage. In order to avoid injury or death to operators caused by electric shock or other hazards, please read carefully and fully understand the content of this chapter before installing, using or repairing this product.

  • Page 7: Rated Limit Value Of Power Supply

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer values should not be exceeded. When not exceed the above limit values, the protection circuit provided by the instrument can prevent device from damage and electric shock hazard. Warning If the testing accessory is used in the manner not specified by Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Ltd., Co, the protection function provided by accessory will be declined.

  • Page 8: Chapter 3: Description And Function

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Chapter Description Function Chapter Description Function 3.1 About this chapter This chapter describes connection terminals and ports of the CANREC, including its communication cable and test suit. 3.2 Connection Terminals (Back panel) Figure 3- 1 shows connection terminals of CANREC back panel.

  • Page 9: Port (Front Panel)

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer 3.3 Port (Front panel) Figure 3- 2 shows the front panel of CANREC. For the description, please see Table 3- 2. Figure 3- 2: CANREC front panel Table 3- 2: Ports (from left to right) Description Remarks USB2.0 interface (host)

  • Page 10: Db9 Interface Definition

    Not used. Not used. 3.5 Optional Interface To be compatible with ISO1898-1/2/3/4/5 standard, CANREC series product provide 4 PORT connectors, which contain 4 kinds of different CAN transceiver. Users can purchase different PORT connector based on actual application system. By default, P8251T is provided.

  • Page 11: Canrec Function List

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer 3.6 CANREC Function List Table 3- 5: CANREC function list CANREC-Basic CANREC-Standard CANREC-Pro Module Items (Basic) (Standard) (Professional) Waveform measurement channel None 2 channels 2 channels Message data measurement 8 channels 8 channels 8 channels...

  • Page 12: Chapter 4: Installation

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Chapter Installation Chapter Installation 4.1 Software Installation 1. Start the setup file Get the setup file and double click the file icon shown in Figure 4- 1 to start installation, as shown in Figure 4- 2.
  • Page 13 Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer 2. Set installation directory Figure 4- 3: CANREC installation wizard – set installation directory The default installation directory is “C:\Program Files \zhiyuan\CANRec”. Users can modify the installation directory in the above interface, and then the interface shown in Figure 4- 4 appears after click the “Next”...
  • Page 14 Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer 4. Set desktop icon Figure 4- 5: CANREC installation wizard – set desktop icon Check the “Create desktop icon” button to add a shortcut icon for software, and then the interface shown in Figure 4- 6 appears after click the “Next”...
  • Page 15 Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Figure 4- 7: CANREC wizard – in progress of installation In the “Installation completed” interface, users can double-click the CANREC software icon on the desktop to run the software, or directly check the “Run CANREC” option to run the software automatically.

  • Page 16: Chapter 5: Function Introduction

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Chapter Function Introduction Chapter Function Introduction The most difficult point in CAN-bus troubleshooting is accidental failures whose primary causes cannot be diagnosed accurately by users and even CAN experts. For example, CAN data transmission interruption occurs once within 72 hours in the pitch system of wind turbine.

  • Page 17: Features

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Figure 5- 1: CANREC ---- 8-channel CAN-bus recording analyzer 5.1 Features  2 CAN channels for analog and digital signal recording (store CAN message and corresponding waveform simultaneously, 100MSa/s sampling rate); ...

  • Page 18: Device Type Naming

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer  Dimensions: 220×331.5×109.2mm (mm). 5.2 Device Type Naming  Professional version: CANREC-Pro 2-channel message and waveform storage, 6-channel message storage; it can export data to PC for offline analysis and connect with PC for online analysis. ...

  • Page 19: Device Panel Operation Description

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Figure 5- 3: Back panel 5.5 Device Panel Operation Description 5.5.1 Device Overview Figure 5- 4 shows the front panel of CANREC device. The panel is composed of 5 areas: 1.

  • Page 20: System Software Overview

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer 5.5.2 System software Overview Figure 5- 5 shows the main software interface. It is composed of three areas: 1. Main display area: it is the main display area of system. The display is dependent on the current function selected by the system.

  • Page 21: Channel View

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Figure 5- 6: Statistic overview view 5.6.2 Channel View The channel view shows the related information of current channel, as shown in Figure 5- 7. The view is divided into upper and lower areas. The current channel, channel configuration data and statistic information are shown in the upper area;...
  • Page 22 Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer corresponding control. 2) Select and modify. After step 1 is complete, the radio control must be selected using the Set key; the button control is already selected; the text control is already selected.
  • Page 23 Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Figure 5- 9: Custom baud rate setting 2. Channel setting Figure 5- 10 shows the channel setting interface. Figure 5- 10: Channel setting view The channel settings contain 3 settings: 1) Channel Enable.
  • Page 24 Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Figure 5- 11: Waveform channel switching 2) Sampling ratio = Sampling rate/Baud rate. The optional sampling ratios include 100:1, 50:1, 20:1 and 10:1. 3) Trigger mode. There are 3 pre-defined trigger modes (full record, frame trigger and error trigger) and custom trigger mode.

  • Page 25: System Configuration

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Figure 5- 13: Range setting view The range setting should be performed for the CAN-H and CAN-L of a channel respectively, including range, offset and coupling. Range. Voltage amplitude in the vertical direction. The optional voltage amplitudes include 1V, 4V, 8V, 20V and 50V.
  • Page 26 Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Users can manage a project as follows: 1) Delete. Use the up/down arrow key to select a project, and then click the Delete key on the menu, a prompt dialog box shown in Figure 5- 15 will pop up. Figure 5- 15: Delete a project Click the OK key to confirm the deletion or the Esc key to cancel the deletion operation.
  • Page 27 Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Figure 5- 17: Project deletion failed. 2) Clear. Delete all projects in a list. Click the Clear key on the menu, and then a prompt dialog box shown in Figure 5- 18 will pop up. Figure 5- 18: Clear a project list The confirmation and cancelation for clearing operation is same as the deletion operation.
  • Page 28 Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Figure 5- 19: Delete all projects successfully Figure 5- 20: Failed to delete all projects Notes: The possible reason that a project can not be cleared or deleted is the corresponding project has been opened in the analytic software running on the PC.
  • Page 29 Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Figure 5- 21: Network settings view 3. Network sharing The network sharing is used for data sharing between the device and a PC. Through the network sharing, the CAN message and waveform data collected from the device is transferred to the PC for further analysis.

  • Page 30: Canrec Analysis Software Function Introduction

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer 5.7 CANREC Analysis Software Function Introduction 5.7.1 Software Installation Start the software after installation. If the interface shown in Figure 5- 23 appears, it indicates the software is installed and runs successfully. Figure 5- 23: Main software interface 5.7.2 Basic Software Operation This section introduces each CANRec software function module and its basic...

  • Page 31: Open Working Area

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer 5.7.3 Open working area After enter the main interface, open the working area before perform the corresponding basic operation. The process is as follows: 1) Click the “Open” button, and the dialog box shown in Figure 5- 25 will appear. Figure 5- 25: “Open Working Area”...

  • Page 32: Waveform

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Figure 5- 27: “Search” dialog box 2) Users can select proper search condition for different demand, and also can click the “Set…” key to do more detailed setting for more accurate message searching. 3) Click the “Next”...

  • Page 33: Eye Diagram

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Figure 5- 29: Waveform operation 5) Click the “Display” button on the menu of waveform view area to set what are displayed in the waveform view. 6) Click the “ ”...

  • Page 34: Fft Transform

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer particular frame waveform. The frame waveforms to be superimposed can be selected by matching options such as frame number, frame type, event tag, frame ID range, frame data. The steps are as follows: 1) Click the “View”...
  • Page 35 Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer high-voltage equipments. At this point, the FFT spectrum analysis function can help users quickly locate the specific interference frequency on the CAN-bus. 1) Click the “View” button on the menu tab, and then click the “FFT” button. The FFT view window shown in Figure 5- 33 appears.

  • Page 36: Statistics

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer 5.7.9 Statistics Click the “View” button on the menu tab, and then click the “Statistics” button. The right statistics window shown in Figure 5- 36 appears. Through this function, users can quickly learn the ratio of error frame and normal frame.

  • Page 37: Trigger Storage Mode

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer continuously save all waveforms on the CAN-bus into the SSD without dead zone after the operation is started. When there is error frame, all waveform recorded before and after error occurrence can be observed. Figure 5- 38: Continuous storage mode 5.7.12 Trigger Storage Mode Figure 5- 39 shows the trigger storage mode.

  • Page 38: Signal Quality Analysis

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer 5.7.13 Signal Quality Analysis The waveform signal is evaluated by analyzing the rising time, falling time, ringing amplitude, ground bounce amplitude, effective amplitude and maximum amplitude of each CAN message waveform, as shown in Figure 5- 40. Figure 5- 40: Signal quality analysis Uses some column algorithms to score and sort the waveform signal quality of each ID, which enables users to conveniently learn the signal quality of CAN-bus node so...

  • Page 39: Message And Waveform Contrast Display

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Figure 5- 42: Bus status statistics 5.7.15 Message and Waveform Contrast Display Since the CANREC has large-capacity SSD (it means that it has more storage space than the CANScope), the number of stored waveforms is more than 1000 times that of the CANScope.

  • Page 40: Custom Protocol Analysis

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Figure 5- 43: Message and waveform contrast display 5.7.16 Custom Protocol Analysis Through the custom protocol editor, users can define a special bit field in which the curve is displayed, as shown in Figure 5- 44. Figure 5- 44: Custom protocol analysis 5.8 Typical Application High-speed train operation fault detection and troubleshooting...
  • Page 41 Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer automobile and new energy automobile  CAN communication fault detection and troubleshooting for ship  CAN communication exception analysis for coal mine  Elevator operation fault detection and troubleshooting ...

  • Page 42: Chapter 6: Conventional Characteristics

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Chapter Conventional Characteristics Chapter Conventional Characteristics Table 6- 1: CANREC characteristics Conventional Characteristics Power Supply 100 -240VAC50Hz or 12~36VDC Power Consumption 24W (Max) Storage Temperature 0℃~55℃ 0℃~55℃ for full accuracy, -25℃~55℃ for 5% error, 80% R.H., Working Environment non-condensing.

  • Page 43: Chapter 7: Rights & Statements

    Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd. CANREC User Manual CAN-bus recording analyzer Chapter Rights & Statements Chapter Rights & Statements The copyright of this user manual is owned by Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronic Co., Ltd. Without the consent of ZHIYUAN Electronics, any claim, compensation, loss, including reasonable solicitor's fee, from any third party due to any commercial use of this manual by any person or unit, is born by users.
  • Page 44 CAN-bus recording analyzer Sales Information Guangzhou ZHIYUAN Electronics Co., Ltd Address：Floor 2, Building No.7, Huangzhou Industrial Estate, Chebei Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou. Zip Code：510660 Website：www.zlg.cn Nationwide service hotline：400-888-4005 Nationwide service hotline：400-888-4005 Sales and service network： Guangzhou Sales Office Shanghai Branch: Shanghai Floor 2, Building No.7, Huangzhou Industrial...

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