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                    [post_content] => [vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="39342"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]A 3-hour online event held on 19th September, 2022, organised by CAN CiA, will provide an update on CAN application fields and topics relevant to the Chinese CAN community.

Among the topics covered are trends in CAN-based networking, CAN FD, CAN XL, and the impact of these trends on higher-layer protocols, such as CANopen or J1939.

Kent Lennartsson, Kvaser’s Research Manager, will present ‘How to achieve higher bitrates in CAN/ CAN-FD’ in a pre-recorded video with translation, followed by a Q&A with Kent and Xiaojun Zheng, Kvaser China’s Technical Services Manager.

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                    [post_content] => [vc_row css=".vc_custom_1663299693409{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_single_image image="39321"][vc_column_text]Kvaser AB welcomes three new members of staff. Anna-Lena Lööf joins Kvaser as Marketing Director. Gunnar Torstensson takes over the position of Sales Manager, Kvaser Europe, whilst Johnny Fornstedt is Kvaser’s new Supply Chain Director.

With over 20 years of experience in leadership and supply chain management, Johnny Fornstedt joins Kvaser from the marine industry where he oversaw a supply chain during a period of exponential growth. Anna-Lena Lööf moves from a Swedish industrial company with a global brand and similar reseller model to Kvaser, where she was also marketing director. Gunnar Torstensson comes from a service engineering background where he was responsible for test and calibration. Gunnar takes over from Silvia Küller, who remains with Kvaser as a member of the European sales team.

Martin Sventén, Kvaser’s CEO commented: “Getting these key positions in place during the summer prepares us to tackle the latter half of 2022 with renewed energy and determination. We have the full spectrum of skills and talent in-house to not just advance, but to lead the way.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_header_raket header_type="h3" header="Get to know our new staff"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_id="anna"][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1663299738734{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Kvaser’s existing and new staff participate regularly at exhibitions and Kvaser’s annual QSR/TA Conference. However, in the event that you don’t get to meet our new employees soon, we’ve asked them to tell you more about themselves and how they’ll complement our team.

Johnny Fornstedt, Supply Chain Director (inc. a supply chain update) >

Anna-Lena Lööf, Marketing Director >

Gunnar Torstensson, Sales Manager, Kvaser Europe >[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_id="gunnar"][vc_column][vc_header_raket header_type="h4" header="Anna-Lena Lööf, Marketing Director"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1663300411322{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]What attracted you to Kvaser?
The management team and the people. There’s a genuinely caring atmosphere that’s evident from the moment you step through the door.

Tell us three things Kvaser TAs & QSRs should know about you.
My previous employer has the same reseller model, so I have an appreciation for the challenges and opportunities resellers face. I have been working closely with resellers all over the world and participated in worldwide trade shows, so events together with a strong branding experience are something that I enjoy and see as vital to support. My experience also includes IT systems for retail, visual merchandising and sales, so partners can expect me to be very hands on with focus on sales and digital driven marketing activities!  

Adrenaline seeker or Zen Buddha: What are your hobbies/interests?
My hobbies include sailing and hosting parties/event planning. I love trying new activities, so I am more adrenaline-seeker than zen-like![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_id="johnny"][vc_column][vc_header_raket header_type="h4" header="Gunnar Torstensson, European Sales Manager, Kvaser Europe"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1663300403560{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]What attracted you to Kvaser?
Martin and 7DD’s energy and enthusiasm were contagious. I could immediately see where my experience could add value. 

Tell us three things Kvaser TAs & QSRs should know about you.
Before Kvaser, I managed a team of test engineers in an engineering consultancy and held account management responsibility. In that way, I can put myself ‘in the shoes’ of many partners, who answer to customers directly. I also understand their focus on retaining and growing long-term relationships with customers, so intend to work closely and strengthen communication with TAs and QSRs. Finally, service engineering exposes you to a wide array of industries, so understanding and growing new revenue streams will be on my agenda.

What are your hobbies/interests?
Sports in the main! I coach an amateur football team and also play golf. Music is another hobby and I play to be creative or just to let off steam.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_header_raket header_type="h4" header="Johnny Fornstedt, Supply Chain Director"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What attracted you to Kvaser, an electronics company, during one of the biggest semiconductor crises the industry has faced so far?!
Well, I like a challenge and I was attracted to the size of the company. I like to work in an environment where I can make a difference. The most important reason, however, was how Martin presented the future of the company and the possibilities for growth and development based on the strength of the brand and the team at Kvaser.

Tell us three things Kvaser TAs & QSRs should know about you.
I have held similar roles for the last 20 years in manufacturing, renewables and lately, marine. In my last job, surging demand for products led to a 20-fold sales growth in three years, so I am used to the ups and downs of an industry and to situations that change fast. Whilst electronics components are new to me, shortages in nickel, chrome etc. are typical of the challenges I have already experienced.

A message on Kvaser’s current supply chain situation.
There were some positive developments last month, so I am ‘carefully positive’. There’s progress in our internal projects to redesign certain key products, combined with a ramp up of manufacturing and the delivery of certain U100 components. Our sales team is already communicating with customers with pre orders that can be fulfilled soon.   

Adrenaline seeker or Zen Buddha: What are your hobbies/interests?
I enjoy outdoor activities: hiking, skiing, scuba diving, fishing and golf. During the darker months of the year, I also play Badminton to keep fit, so I am definitely more of an active, adrenaline-seeker.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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Discover Kvaser’s latest video showing how CAKE employs Kvaser interfaces to develop its light electric offroad bikes. With a new focus on last mile delivery, CAKE has gone from promising Swedish start-up targeting a novel but niche electric motorbike market segment, to a serious contender for a developing mass market, globally. We are proud to partner on their journey … it’s quite a ride!

Read the original casestudy here.

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Cenex-LCV & Cenex-Connected Automated Mobility takes place on 7 – 8th September 2022 at Millbrook, UK. Come and meet long-time Kvaser qualified sales representatives/technical associates at the event.

Warwick Control and Influx Technology have a joint booth at C4-104. In addition to their own products, the Kvaser Hybrid and the Kvaser Air Bridge wireless CAN bridge will be on display.

Accurate Technologies, experts in measurement, calibration and diagnostics, can be found at booth C3-215, showing a variety of Kvaser products, including the Kvaser U100, alongside ATI's own extensive portfolio.

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Much of this progress can be attributed to the CiA’s forum for exchange, CAN advocacy and an early emphasis on standardisation across the entire not-for-profit organisation and by Managing Director Holger Zeltwanger, in particular. Kvaser was a founding CiA member, having started the CAN Textile Users Group and CAN Hydraulic Users Group in 1992, which were both later brought under the main organisation’s umbrella. “Early on, everyone brought something to the table and CAN CiA events quickly became the central hub for CAN information exchange and later on, the controlling force in CAN standardisation,” notes Lars-Berno Fredriksson, outgoing CEO and President of Kvaser, who has chaired various technical groups and participated in the review committee for many of the annual international CAN Conference (iCC) events held since 1992. 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In this blog I will try to show how easy it is to set up a Kvaser Memorator to record the traffic between two CAN devices. This is the first time that I have used a Memorator and I will try to show how to set it up without prior knowledge of logging data from a CAN-bus.
I am using the Kvaser Memorator Pro 2xHS v2 but it is possible to use (almost) any of Kvaser’s combined interface/loggers:
  • Kvaser Memorator Pro 2xHS v2 (73-30130-00819-9)
  • Kvaser Memorator Pro 5xHS (73-30130-00778-9)
  • Kvaser Memorator R SemiPro (73-30130-00490-0)
  • Kvaser Memorator 2xHS v2 (73-30130-00821-2)
In this blog, I intend to record the data between two units during their startup sequence for later inspection and analysis. I will not use any advanced setups and will show how easy it is to simply record data. My aim is to begin recording within 5 minutes! In my setup I am using two “GARMIN echoMAP™ CHIRP 72sv” connected to a NMEA2000 (CAN-bus) via a “Kvaser T-Cannector v2”. I use standard D-SUB 9 to NMEA2000 cables. The T-Cannector adds 12 VDC to the CAN bus, powers the Memorator and adds a 60Ω terminator. The Garmin units use the standard NMEA2000 protocol and start transmitting data when powered.

Drivers, SDK and configuration tools

Please install the Kvaser Drivers, Kvaser CANLib SDK and Kvaser Memorator Config Tools before using the Kvaser Memorator Pro 2xHS v2; it is much easier to use the unit if we have done that. You can find the latest versions in the Download section on our homepage.
  • Kvaser Drivers for Windows
  • Kvaser CANlib SDK
  • Kvaser Memorator Config Tools

Battery charging

Before the Memorator is used, please charge the battery in the unit (check the USERGUIDE for instructions.) If you are training to use the unit, then the unit will charge while you are performing the setup, but please ensure that it is charged properly before you perform a real survey. The purpose of the battery is to enable the unit to store data on the SD card when the external power is removed and close the unit properly without data loss.

SD Card management

Before ANY logging can be performed with the Memorator, it is important that the SD card is initialized. This MUST be done using Kvaser Memorator Config Tools. An SD card that has been formatted via a Windows system or similar will not work. How to initialize the SD card will be mentioned in a later section.

Memorator setup

Install the SD card into the Memorator (you will initialize it later). Please connect the Memorator with a USB cable to your computer. (The Memorator will now charge the battery.)
In the START menu, you will find the “Kvaser Memorator Config Tool”; in my case it is called “Kvaser Memorator Pro 2xHS v2”.
You can also start the tool via “Kvaser Device Guide”.
With this tool, we can set up the Memorator to log the information we want to record. If needed, press the CONNECT button. (If it is the first time the unit is used or if the SD card is empty, it might ask you to initialize the card. If you are unsure how to do this, check 7.1 Disk Management – Initialize Disk)

Standard features

General Information

Make sure that the realtime clock is correct. Adjust if needed.

Bus configuration

Starting to set up the BUS parameters. NMEA2000 uses 250 kBit/s and I do not edit any settings, allowing the tool to use the default values. (Now is a good time to save the settings into a named file so you can open it later. Use the menu FILE/SAVE AS and store it somewhere.)

Advanced features

Under Log Configuration we can find:
  • Define Messages
  • Databases
  • Filters
  • Triggers
  • Scripts
In this section we really can do some advanced stuff, but for the moment we’ll leave everything blank. We do not need to enter any information here in order to record data. The only thing we do is to check the “Log Everything” box.
Check that “Log everything” is checked.

Flash disk

This section is important.
  • Log files (will be used later, so we will come back to this later)
  • Disk management (Here we setup our SD card)

Disk Management - Initialize Disk

It is essential to INITIALIZE the SD card before logging any data! I do not yet understand the different numbers so I use the default values and press OK.
Hmmm, it seems like it tries to reset everything, including the settings we already have configured! Maybe we should have done this before we set parameters, triggers, filters and scripts. But, this is only true if we have something on the SD card we want to keep. In this case, I do not have anything important on the card so I press OK.

Download configuration to Memorator

If we press the DOWNLOAD button, then the configuration is downloaded from our tool to our Memorator. 
  • DOWNLOAD – From ConfigTool to Memorator
  • UPLOAD – From Memorator to ConfigTool

Configuration achieved?

We have now configured the Memorator to be able to log traffic on the NMEA2000 bus. I left many settings unused and only set the necessary bus parameters. Let’s see what happens when I start this set up in Memorator mode.

Collecting data

I will do it in this order:
  • Select the DISCONNECT button in ConfigTool
  • Disconnect the USB communication between the Memorator and the computer. cable from the MemoratorRemove Memorator from the USB
  • Turn all test units off (my Garmin units)
  • Connect Memorator DB9 channel 1 to the NMEA2000 bus.
  • Wait for Memorator to start (12VDC is already running through the power source (in my case, a Kvaser T-Cannector v2)
  • Turn all test units on
  • Wait approximately 2 to 3 minutes to ensure that all normal startup traffic has occurred
  • Disconnect Memorator DB9-1 (this will end the recording)
  • Connect the Memorator to the USB cable attached to your PC.

Checking results

I connect to the Memorator again in the ConfigTool and select the sections “Flash disk”, then “Log files”.
If I select “List files” then the unit lists all available files for me:
Just as I expected, I have recorded approximately four minutes of recorded data, 12520 events, or approximately 50 events/s. I expected 100 events/s but it took some time before I started the units, so this data makes sense.

Extracting files

I select file 1. And choose the option to “Extract files”.
Select file destination …
Select the format you would like the data to appear in. I select “CAN frames in plain text”. If you are unsure, select KME50, which allows you to convert the data to other formats later.
This seems OK, so let’s test and see what happens.
After a short period, the application reports that the export is done.

The logfile001.txt

Kvaser Memorator Log
                              ====================

Memorator Binary logfile created at: 2018-04-25 13:17:16

                                                        
Settings:
   Format of data field: DEC
   Format of id field:   DEC
   Timestamp Offset:     0.000000           s
   CAN channel:          1 2

        Time Chan   Identifier Flags        DLC  Data                                     Counter
=============================================================================================
    0.243188  Trigger (type=0x1, active=0x00, pre-trigger=0, post-trigger=-1)
  188.359876  1   418316033x   Rx            8  222 175 184  28   0 190 120 192             1
  188.609826  1   418053889x   Rx            3    0 238   0                                 2
  188.621215  1   167248385x   Rx            8  255 252 254 255 254 255 255 255             3
  188.784812  1   167248129x   Rx            8  254 255 255 127 254 255 255 127             4
  188.846120  1   167248129x   Rx            8  254 255 255 127 254 255 255 127             5
  188.875237  1   167248385x   Rx            8  255 252 254 255 254 255 255 255             6
  188.876593  1   167248129x   Rx            8  254 255 255 127 254 255 255 127             7
  188.973338  1   167248129x   Rx            8  254 255 255 127 254 255 255 127             8
  189.073275  1   167248129x   Rx            8  254 255 255 127 254 255 255 127             9
  189.123231  1   167248385x   Rx            8  255 252 254 255 254 255 255 255            10
  189.173227  1   167248129x   Rx            8  254 255 255 127 254 255 255 127            11
  189.273280  1   167248129x   Rx            8  254 255 255 127 254 255 255 127            12
  189.354273  1   502267649x   Rx            8    0  17 229 152 231   8   0  10            13
  189.354845  1   502267649x   Rx            8    1   3   1   3  13 230 197 176            14
  189.355425  1   502267649x   Rx            8    2 220   1  17   0 255 255 255            15
  189.373409  1   234358017x   Rx            8    0  43 255  89  65 254 255 255            16
Ok, we have some results!
  • I can record data
  • I can download data
  • I can convert data to the required format
  • I can verify data
  • I can analyze data later.
It seems like I am able to do some logging less than 5 minutes after I started to use the unit. (Actually, it took 10 minutes, as I had to drink some coffee!) ΟΕΔ  (Q.E.D.  Quod erat demonstrandum)

Additional Materials:

Video instructions for Kvaser Memorator products can also be found at https://www.kvaser.com/videos/quick-start-guide-for-memorator-professional/
Do you need more information or do you have questions? Please feel free to contact us, your comments and questions are welcome! You can find us here: [email protected]  
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Kvaser technical associate Softing Automotive is holding an Automotive Convention on May 24-25, 2022. The event combines virtual showroom with live demos and presentations on key trends and challenges in this sector, such as telematics for fleet management and simulation of DoIP control units.

Especially recommended is Julian Mayer’s presentation entitled "Perfect Match – Individual Workshop Tester Meets Rugged CAN/FD Interface", on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 6-6:30 pm (CET) and Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 9:30-10 am (CET). Julian presents Softing’s intuitive plug & play solution for all diagnostic tasks in aftersales. The diagnostic software is complemented by Kvaser hardware in the shape of the Kvaser U100, a CAN/CAN FD interface that withstands even the toughest demands in the workshop environment.

 For details of the entire programme, please visit https://automotive.softing.com/softing-automotive-convention-2022.html

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