FRAME is an automotive bus monitoring and node simulation tool for FlexRay bus. Such a tool very well serves the purpose of a development, analysing and debugging suite for FlexRay based systems. This is yet another addition to RBEI product kitty having completely conceptualized, designed and developed by RBEI. Prime categories of its features include real-time display and logging of both received and transmitted messages, transmission of messages both in discrete and cyclic mode and filtering. Having quite a generic component based architecture meeting COM specification, this facilitates features in aspects of easy adaptability to different hardwares, usage of the components in rapid development of similar projects, easy and rapid upgradation and high degree of customization

FRAME as a node in FlexRay bus

FRAME can easily be installed in laptop as well as in desktop computer. It may be connected to the bus through a hardware interface (Flexray controller and transreceiver provided by third party). Once the controller is configured according to the bus variables the FRAME starts communicating.

FRAME can be used for trapping, displaying, logging and interpreting all the messages coming from the bus as well as one can transmit different messages to the bus using it.

The above picture shows a snapshot of FRAME application in action.

1. Synchronization FlexRay frames - received as well as transmitted.
2. Dynamic FlexRay frames - received as well as transmitted
3. Static Flexray frames - received as well as transmitted
4. Function Editor toolbar
5. Main toolbar
6. Configuration toolbar
7. Node Simulation toolbar
8. MessageWindow Configuration toolbar
9. Log Configuration toolbar

Highlights

• Flexible
• User friendly
• Easily extendable and component based
• Highly customizable
• Cost effective
• Easily adaptable to different hardware interface

 It provides a programming interface to enable custom handling of FlexRay messages as per the user needs.

Key Features

• Multi format message display in decimal and hexadecimal formats
• Time stamping of system in system and relative mode
• Transmission of messages in discrete or cyclic mode
• Message logging in preferred format of the user
• Filtering of Frames
• Frame interpretation
• Support of Fibex 1.2, 2.0.1 and 3.0 for frame interpretation
• Node programming with multimode support (through C programming interface)
• Generation and “on the fly” usage of dynamic link library to simulate node behaviour
• Saving / loading user preferences (configuration)