ETAS MDA V8 - Interoperability with ETAS Products; Launching MDA from INCA

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For more information about the individual applications, enter in the Windows DOS
console the argument --help for the respective command line tool, e.g. mdf-
convert --help.
3.7.2 Supporting Bus Trace Files (BLF)
With the optional CAN Bus Trace add-on, MDA supports the analysis of CAN Bus
Trace files (BLF) in combination with a bus description file (DBC or ARXML). To
use the CAN Bus Trace add-on, a valid license must be available, which is
provided with the INCA CAN-Trace add-on.
With the CAN Bus Trace add-on, you can load the bus trace files recorded with
the INCA Bus Trace recorder. To interpret the recorded data, you need a CAN
monitoring description file (DBC or ARXML).
Note
Bus support is limited to CAN and CAN FD.
For more information, see "Loading a Bus Trace File (BLF)" on page45.
3.7.3 Video Instrument
In the Video instrument, you can display the video file recorded with the INCA
video add-on and especially for analysis in relation to other measurements. To
use the Video instrument, you need a valid license provided with the INCA Video-
Integration add-on. For more information, see "Video" on page85.
3.7.4 Connecting to an ODS Server
The increasing number of measure files requires an intelligent and reliable stor-
age, which should allow to retrieve specific signals from different origins without
loading the files. ASAM ODS standard defines such an approach which can be
realized as an ODS database. ASAM ODS support is a customer-specific MDA V8
add-on. It is available on demand, and needs to be adapted for the com-
munication and the structure of the ODS database.
Note
The supported database format is limited to ODS 6.
3.8 Interoperability with ETAS Products
3.8.1 Launching MDA fromINCA
When working in INCA, you can directly access V8.6 to analyze the measurement
recording.
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