Category: ECU Diagnostics
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ECU Diagnostics – part 13 : Three Diagnostic Protocols in the MBE 9A4 ECU
Post Views: 1,021 This one’s just a short post to introduce the next three posts. In our investigations of the MBE 9A4 ECU we’ve found three different diagnostics protocols supported on the OBD port. The following three posts will summarise what we’ve learnt about each protocol and will be updated with new information as it…
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ECU Diagnostics – part 12 : OSI 7 Layers for Caterham Diagnostics
Post Views: 1,339 Communications protocols are often called protocol stacks… they’re layers, or stacks, of different protocols… one layered on top of the other from lowest level (hardware/physical) to highest level (software application). This is where the OSI 7 Layer model comes in… it standardises how we think about the layers and allows us to…
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ECU Diagnostics – part 11 : Logic Analyzer on the CAN Bus
Post Views: 1,562 To test out my theories and the code I’d been writing, I needed a simple test and a way to make sure the code (and I) was doing what I thought it should be. The code part was easy, take the JSON files I’d created from the Easimap EC2 file and use…
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ECU Diagnostics – part 10 : Decoding EC2 Files
Post Views: 1,081 Now we need to start proving some of our theories about how Easimap is actually talking to the ECU. And it seemed to me that if I was going to prove anything then I’d need to pass a lot of data through any theory I came up with, and that meant writing…
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ECU Diagnostics – part 9 : The Easimap Protocol Theory
Post Views: 1,219 Ok. so we’ve set ourselves up to be able to look at what is going on with a Caterham diagnostics port, we’ve talked a bit about the theory of what we might see from the port and we’ve also seen that Easimap talks to the ECU using a higher level protocol called…