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imc CANSAS Users Manual - Doc. Version 1.9 - 05.12.2014© 2014 imc Meßsysteme GmbH
2.5 Integrating the imc CANSAS software with imc DEVICES
As of Version 1.4R5, the imc CANSAS software can operate not only as an independent program, but also
integrated with the imc DEVICES software. This is supported by imc DEVICES as of Version 2.6.
If the imc CANSAS software has been installed, its user's interface can be called directly from imc DEVICES
via a menu command, provided that a field bus interface of type CAN2 is part of the hardware setup.
However, certain functions and menu items aren't available for calling from imc DEVICES. For example,
the imc CANSAS configuration is not administered as an MDB-database, since it is saved along with the
experiment under imc DEVICES. XML-export/import is possible. Access to the imc CANSAS hardware is
provided via the imc DEVICES hardware's CAN-Bus. This communicates via Ethernet, so that all interfaces
incl. imc-USB as well as the Interface-Dialog are blocked.