Dustin,
It was a pleasure speaking with you on the phone today.
It seems that the problem was in using extended arbitration ID's with the Frame Channel Conversion Library. Here are some examples that show how to use this library with extended arb ID's.
http://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-6793
http://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-6792
http://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-6055
Regards
Peter Flores
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Unfortunately, the C API is not documented, nor is it stated as a supported interface.
With that said, you may be able to dig into the VI's of the Frame Channel Conversion Library and pull the function prototypes from the Call Library Function Node on the block diagram of each one. With this information, you could call the functions from the dll (usually located here: C:\Program Files\National Instruments\NI-CAN\CAN Frame Channel Conversion Library 1.0.2\Drivers) from within C.
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Frame Channel Conversion Library

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I'm currently using the Frame Channel Conversion Library (downloaded on the NI Site) and I noticed that there are troubles when using a.dbc containing channels with "scaling factor".
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This could be an issue of using extended 29 bit IDs with the conversion library. If you have extended Ids with your signal database, the NI-CAN driver allways expects to see the 30 th ID bit set additionally if you like to transmit an extended ID and you have to remove the 30 th bit if you provide the ID for the conversion VI. See the attached pictures for how to remove and add the 30th bit for NI-CAN.
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one single frame has 0-8 byte of data (Data byte). In Data byte field we logically allocate more channels.
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Hi,
Is it possible to use this DLL with CVI? If so, is there any example code or a user document?
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Hi JGC
Unfortunately this Library is only meant to be used from LV and LVRT, an equivalent Library does not exist in CVI.
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Hello Hooovahh,
Nice work . It’s very useful.
I’m also converting CAN Raw data to Physical values in my project. Yes, your correct XNET APIs have some limitations. as you mentioned, there is one more limitation I found,
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As per attached Snap, My Signal is related to IDxBB and I’m sending two different Frames then XNET will not convert.
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