Ethernet Monitoring

The Ethernet (ETH) interface is used to collect and record communications data exchanged in an Ethernet group.

The description of the Ethernet communication is necessary to measure signals from the Ethernet. The description formats that are currently supported are AUTOSAR (*.arxml) for reading in the description of the Ethernet environment.

PDU Based Clusters

PDU clusters are used to obtain information on the messages and signals used in the Ethernet environment. The PDU clusters describe a specific bus and the connected participants and signals.

Ethernet data is only supported in INCA on signal value levels. A hierarchical view of message levels is only available within the Variable Selection Dialog. Based on the AUTOSAR structures, INCA displays corresponding groups in the Variable Selection Dialog. The PDU format contains symbolic information about the sender, messages and signal values with physical conversion.

Because signals are processed independently of the messages in INCA, it is possible to use the same signal names more than once in different messages. If the same signal name appears in different messages, the message name is added to the signal name separated by a ".". This occurs when the AUTOSAR format is converted to the INCA database format.