CAN Pre-Installation Requirements

Before using FLIP to perform ISP operations through a CAN dongle, you must install the dongle driver. The driver installation procedure is described in the documentation of the dongle.

But this is not sufficient; FLIP cannot interface directly with a dongle driver; it requires a library of functions provided by the manufacturer of the dongle and called the Application Programming Interface (API).

If the API DLL is not installed, FLIP cannot load it and displays an error message dialog :

Before running a CAN ISP session, verify that the dongle API DLL is installed on your system.

The following table gives the names of the API DLLs for the CAN dongles supported by FLIP.

Manufacturer

IXXAT

PEAK

RM

SYSTEC

VECTOR

DLL Name

vci11un6.dll

canapi2.dll

atrs232.dll *

usbcan32.dll

vcand32.dll

The API DLLs are usually located in the C:\WINDOWS\system32 folder.

 

* The atrs232.dll file is an Atmel's API written for the RS232 port.