• Requirements ODX-authoring tool
  • samtec ODXplorer
  • Softing DTS-Venice
  • Vector CANdelaStudio
  • Visual Database Designer In2Soft ODX

Requirements ODX-authoring tool

As an XML-based data format, ODX can theoretically create, edit with any text editor. In practice, however, that is neither sensible nor realistic time high quality feasible. Therefore, one needs special authoring tools that provide a simple yet comfortable user interface to edit and powerful search in large data sets can.

Just as important for the clarity in many places is a graphical representation of the relationship. Already when entering but in particular as regards the full data sets, an automatic check (validation) is essential. Since you co-exist over a longer period of time with proprietary solutions must, it is necessary to import existing legacy data formats into ODX and ODX export if necessary records to the older proprietary data formats to be able to. ODX has a longer version of history behind it and as usual, the versions are not necessarily fully upward compatible. It is thus necessary that authoring tools can deal with different versions ODX. Just as necessary to support various languages, so that national variations can be dealt with by a single ODX record.

Not least ODX is indeed for the documentation of diagnostic data ideal, but not necessarily humane. In the market there are now a number of manufacturers of tools for ODX.

samtec ODXplorer

Let us start our brief overview of the company with the tool ODXplorer samtec. Like most ODX Tools offers ODXplorer Editiervorlagen, called templates, and allows the import of proprietary Editiervorlagen the vehicle manufacturer. Furthermore, the Wizards ODXplorer provides for the creation of the ODX description for diagnostic services. The graphical representation of the ODX hierarchies of references, protocol data units and similar ODX objects is easily possible, as is the validity check during both the entry and the validation by the so-called ASAM ODX Checker at the end when the records done are. A not to be underestimated evaluation criterion in the evaluation of ODX tools, dealing with very large data sets. Records for an entire car can definitely go to the range of several hundred megabytes and not every ODX tool that gets along well with small data sets, is in a position with these large data sets or handle in a reasonable time.

ODXplorer the samtec GmbH

Softing DTS-Venice

A similar tool provides the company with its tool Softing DTS-Venice. Again, there are Editiervorlagen and here there is the possibility of the plausibility check as you type and the validation by the ASAM ODX Checker.

DTS-Venice of Softing AG

Vector CANdelaStudio

Another tool is the CANdelaStudio of Vector computer science. Special mention the possibility of using CANoe, we have in defining the network communication, and simulation to know the network communication is already working together.

CANdelaStudio of Vector Ltd.

Visual Database Designer In2Soft ODX

Finally, the tool ODX Visual Database Designer, the company In2Soft.

Visual Database Designer, the ODX In2Soft GmbH