XNet Virtual Hardware / Ports

[Hooovahh]

Back in the NI-CAN days, there was a handy development tool which was the usage of two virtual CAN ports, ports CAN256, and CAN257.  If you wrote a frame on one, it would be read on the other, and vise versa.  Other CAN hardware like Vector, and Kvasar support virtual CAN hardware which does something similar, where initial development can be tested before having access to the hardware.

This idea is to add virtual hardware support for XNET which supports this same feature.  it has been talked about in a thread here several years ago, but nothing ever came of it.  Adding support for virutal hardware for CAN, LIN, Flex-Ray and any other XNET hardware would be a great development tool, and enable the testing of the expected handshaking of software, with simulated communications.

[JiangYuliang]

六年都要过去了，还是没有虚拟CAN口，有意思。

[Hooovahh]

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Six years have passed, and there is still no virtual CAN port, which is interesting.

Yeah maybe NI would be more interested in this if it had more kudos.  I couldn't help but notice you forgot to kudo the idea.  If you do want this as a feature click the star.

[John_O]

Thanks  all-

I wonder why what should be a simple implementation to virtually connect the XNET CAN features, are not yet available.

They have the "Virtual CAN Device Simulator.vi"

in the ".....\nixnet\examples.llb"

but it will not run without some kind of external hardware.

Open to anyone's idea who has solved CAN simulation without hardware.

BTW- how many Kudo's does it take to get NI's attention?

TiA,

John

[Hooovahh]

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@John_O wrote:

BTW- how many Kudo's does it take to get NI's attention?

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That's a good question.  Unfortunately there isn't a set number.  There is an idea, to have NI respond when we hit some kind of number but that also hasn't been implemented.  I would highly suspect this isn't on NI's radar.  If this had 10 times the kudos I still think NI would probably work on other ideas.