topic Re: Compatibility with Lawicel USB-CAN Adapter in FreeMASTER

Compatibility with Lawicel USB-CAN Adapter

lucav — Thu, 07 May 2020 09:47:54 GMT

I NXP,
have you already planned to add Freemaster comunication compatibility with Lawicel USB-CAN Adapter ?
https://www.can232.com/?page_id=16
Thanks

Re: Compatibility with Lawicel USB-CAN Adapter

MichalH — Thu, 07 May 2020 19:25:22 GMT

Hello,

unfortunately, support of this vendor is not in our plans for 2020. But we will consider it for future updates.

Best regards,

Michal

Re: Compatibility with Lawicel USB-CAN Adapter

lucav — Fri, 08 May 2020 15:21:37 GMT

Is available any documentation about comunication driver development ?

Thanks in advance

LucaV

Re: Compatibility with Lawicel USB-CAN Adapter

MichalH — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 09:59:04 GMT

Dear Luca,

a general COM+ interface needed when designing a custom FreeMASTER communication plug-in is available in the FreeMASTER 3.0 installation in "FreeMASTER\userdev\include\mcbcom_i.idl" file. Unfortunately we do not provide a source code examples or any detailed guide how to create the plug-ins. So far, there were no interest from users to do so.

I would recommend you to use one of supported CAN interfaces:

IXXAT: USB-to-CAN and other compatible devices.
Vector: VCAN and other compatible devices.
National Instruments: NI-CAN and other compatible devices.
Kvaser: Kvaser Leaf Pro HS v2 and other compatible devices.
PEAK-System: PCAN-USB and other PCANBasic compatible devices.
GLinker: USB-CAN GY8507 and other compatible devices.
ZLG: USBCAN-II and other compatible devices.
Intrepid Control Systems: ValueCAN and other compatible devices.

If it helps, we have also recently added a support for Viewtool Ginkgo USB-CAN interface. It is not officially released yet, but I can share a prototype with you.

We will consider adding the Lawicel device support by end of 2020.

Regards,

Michal

Re: Compatibility with Lawicel USB-CAN Adapter

RufusVS — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 14:38:44 GMT

Was the Viewtool Ginkgo support added since this message? I recently acquired one and wondered if FreeMaster would be a good tool for me.

Re: Compatibility with Lawicel USB-CAN Adapter

MichalH — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 15:26:17 GMT

Hello @RufusVS,

yes FreeMASTER 3.2 does support the Viewtool Ginkgo interface. There is no support for Lawicel device yet though.

Regards,
Michal