Magna Telemotive AG blue PiraT Mini User manual

blue PiraT Mini
User Guide
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Table of contents
1LICENSE AGREEMENT.....................................................................................................4
2PRODUCT LIABILITY.........................................................................................................5
3Overview ............................................................................................................................6
4System requirements........................................................................................................7
4.1 Further manuals.........................................................................................................8
5The blue PiraT Mini system...............................................................................................9
5.1 Accessories..............................................................................................................10
5.2 Additional features by optional licenses....................................................................11
6The blue PiraT mini data logger .....................................................................................12
6.1 Model versions of blue PiraT Mini.............................................................................12
6.2 Front side.................................................................................................................13
6.3 Rear side..................................................................................................................13
7Controls and ports ..........................................................................................................14
7.1 ON / Trigger button...................................................................................................14
7.1.1 Resetting the logger to factory settings............................................................14
7.2 LEDs........................................................................................................................15
7.2.1 ACTIVE-LED (green).......................................................................................15
7.2.2 STATE-LED (red)............................................................................................15
7.3 ETH #1 / TSL and ETH #2 / TSL ..............................................................................15
7.4 Micro-USB port.........................................................................................................16
7.5 SD card slot..............................................................................................................17
7.6 ETH #3 and ETH #4.................................................................................................18
7.7 Multifunction connector 44-pol SUB-D HD................................................................18
7.8 Multifunction connector 15-pol SUB-D......................................................................18
7.9 MOST150 interface..................................................................................................19
7.10 Default network settings...........................................................................................19
7.10.1 Resetting the network settings..................................................................19
8Starting the blue PiraT Mini ............................................................................................20
8.1 Download and installation of the Telemotive System Client......................................21
9Adapter cables.................................................................................................................23
9.1 blue PiraT Mini cable set CAN..................................................................................23
9.2 blue PiraT Mini cable set LIN....................................................................................24
9.3 blue PiraT Mini cable set MOST150.........................................................................24
9.4 blue PiraT Mini cable set FlexRay ............................................................................25
9.5 Note for serial measurements...................................................................................26
9.6 Adapter cable for Remote Control Voice (RCV)........................................................26
10 Logging data....................................................................................................................27
10.1 Setting markers........................................................................................................27
10.1.1 Setting marker with an extern push button................................................27
10.2 Time stamp ..............................................................................................................28
10.3 Standby mode..........................................................................................................29
10.4 Memory space and level...........................................................................................30
10.4.1 Status Logger: OK....................................................................................30
10.4.2 Status Logger: WARN..............................................................................30
10.4.3 Status Logger: RING................................................................................30
10.4.4 Status Logger: MEM.................................................................................31
10.4.5 Status Logger: NoSync.............................................................................32
10.4.6 Status Logger: ERROR ............................................................................32
11 Interfaces .........................................................................................................................33
11.1 CAN .........................................................................................................................33
11.1.1 High Speed and Low Speed operating modes..........................................33

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11.1.2 CAN data with 29 Bit identifiers ................................................................33
11.1.3 Recording contents...................................................................................34
11.1.4 Sending CAN messages...........................................................................34
11.1.5 LS-CAN and using a RC / RCV ................................................................34
11.2 LIN 35
11.2.1 LIN data blocks and time stamps..............................................................35
11.2.2 LIN transceiver.........................................................................................35
11.2.3 Special frames and states ........................................................................35
11.3 Serial (RS232)..........................................................................................................36
11.3.1 Segmentation of the serial data................................................................36
11.3.2 RS232 transceiver....................................................................................36
11.4 FlexRay....................................................................................................................36
11.5 Analog / Digital Input ................................................................................................37
11.6 Digital Output............................................................................................................37
11.7 Ethernet....................................................................................................................37
11.7.1 Supported protocols .................................................................................37
11.8 MOST150.................................................................................................................39
11.9 ECL..........................................................................................................................39
12 Conversion of recorded traces.......................................................................................40
12.1 Conversion format overview.....................................................................................40
13 Service and safety instructions......................................................................................41
13.1 Safety advice............................................................................................................41
14 Data sheet........................................................................................................................43
15 Pin assignments and harnesses ....................................................................................46
15.1 Pin assignment - 44-pol SUB-D HD connector at blue PiraT Mini CAN ....................46
15.2 Pin assignment - 44-pol SUB-D HD connector at blue PiraT Mini LIN ......................48
15.3 Pin assignment - 15-pol SUB-D connector at blue PiraT Mini MOST........................49
15.4 Pin assignment - 44-pol SUB-D HD connector at blue PiraT Mini FlexRay...............50
16 Abbreviations ..................................................................................................................52
17 List of figures...................................................................................................................54
18 List of tables....................................................................................................................55
19 Contact.............................................................................................................................56

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1 LICENSE AGREEMENT
Please read the license agreement of this license contract carefully, before you install the soft-
ware. By the installation of the software you agree to the conditions of this license contract.
This software-license agreement, in the following called “license”, contains all rights and re-
strictions for final users that regulate the use of the accompanying software, operating instruc-
tions and other documents, in the following called as “software”.
1. This license contract is an agreement between licensor and licensee, who is being licensed to
use the named software.
2. Licensee acknowledges that this is only a limited nonexclusive license. This means, that the li-
censee has no right to allocate sublicenses. Licensor is and remains the owner of all titles, rights
and interests in the software.
3. The software is a copyright property of the Telemotive AG. The program or parts of it may not be
further licensed to third parts, rented, sold or be further marketed in any form without explicit writ-
ten approval by Telemotive AG. The user may neither change the software and their compo-
nents, nor modify, nor redevelop or decompile otherwise in any form.
4. This software is subject to no warranty. This software is sold as is, without any warranty. If at any
time, a user changes his system, we hold no responsibility to change our software to make it
work again.
5. This license permits licensee to install the software on more than one computer system, as long
as the software will not be used on more than one computer system simultaneously. Licensee will
not make copies of the software or allow copies of the software to be made by others, unless au-
thorized by this license agreement. Licensee may make copies of the software for backup pur-
poses only. Licensee is not entitled to transmit or to transfer the software or its rights from this
license agreement.
6. Licensor is not liable to licensee for any damages, including compensatory, special, incidental,
exemplary, punitive or consequential damages, connected with or resulting from this license
agreement or licensee’s use of this software.
7. Licensee agrees to defend and indemnify licensor and hold licensor harmless from all claims,
losses, damages, complaints or expenses connected with or resulting from licensee’s business
operations.
8. Licensor has the right to terminate this license agreement and licensee’s right to use this software
upon any material breach by licensee. The duration of the license contract is indefinitely deter-
mined.
9. Licensee agrees to return all copies of the software to licensor or to destroy them upon termina-
tion of the license contract.
10. This license agreement replaces and supersedes all prior negotiations, dealings and agreements
between licensor and licensee regarding this software.
11. This license contract is subject to German law.
12. If a regulation of this license contract is void by law, the validity of the remaining regulations is not
affected. If there is such a regulation it will be replaced by a valid, according to the legal regula-
tions and enforceable regulation with similar intention and similar economic consequence.
13. The license contract is effective by delivery of the software of the licensor to the licensee and/or
by usage of the software by the licensee. This license contract is also valid without licensor’s sig-
nature.
14. The license automatically goes out if the licensee does not agree to the license regulations de-
scribed here or offend against the license regulations of this license contract. With ending the li-
cense contract the licensee is obliged to extinguish or to destroy the software and all copies of it
no matter if installed or stored on disk or to hand all of it back to Telemotive AG.
15. The licensee is liable for all damages caused to the licensor by the violation of these license
regulations.

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2 PRODUCT LIABILITY
For all offers, sales and supplies the following conditions apply exclusively, even if the buyer,
orderer and suchlike prescribes other conditions. Alterations are only valid, if they are agreed in
writing.
1. The technical documentation is part of the products. The product liability and the product guaran-
tee will be excluded, if contents and in particular the safety references and instructions of the
documentation are not considered.
2. The products do belong to the group of test tools. By application of the equipment a disturbance
of the tested system cannot be completely excluded. For this reason, the warranty of a perfectly
functioning system cannot be taken over by the manufacturer. Application of the product takes
place at one’s own risk.
3. The liability of the substitution of damages according to §1 product liability law is expressly ex-
cluded in the context of §9 product liability law, as far as compelling legal terms do not provide
anything else.
4. In no event will the producer be liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential dam-
ages, including loss of profits, loss of revenues, loss of data, loss of use, any other economic ad-
vantage or damage caused by pretensions of third party towards the customer out of this
agreement, under any theory of liability, whether in an action in contract, strict liability, tort (includ-
ing negligence) or other legal or equitable theory.
5. The burden of proof is with the customer.
6. The Telemotive AG does ensure the legal warranty according to German law. Except for warran-
ties expressly set forth in this agreement, any and all products are delivered “as is” and the pro-
ducer makes and the customer receives no additional express or implied warranties. The
producer hereby expressly disclaims any and all other warranties of any kind or nature con-
cerning the products, whether express or implied, including without limitation, any warranty of ti-
tle, merchantability, quality, accuracy or fitness for a particular purpose or the customer’s
purpose. The producer expressly disclaims any warranties that may be implied from usage of
trade, course of dealing or course of performance. Except for the express warranties stated in
this agreement the products are provided with all faults and the entire risk of unsatisfactory quali-
ty, performance, accuracy. The possible effort is with the customer. The producer does not war-
rant that the products will operate without interruption or be error free.
7. The Telemotive AG is justified to exchange defective goods against homogeneous acceptable
ones or to eliminate the fault within an appropriate period. In this case a demand for redhibitory
action or reduction of price expires. Warranty claims presuppose a due notice of defects.
8. Resale, transfer, donation, exchanges or the rental of the offered products at third party is permit-
ted without clearance of the Telemotive AG.
9. German Law is deemed to be as legal basis.
© by Telemotive AG, 2016
Subject to errors and to technical changes as part of product improvement.

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3 Overview
This user guide describes the administration of the newest generation of blue PiraT data logger
of the Telemotive AG, called blue PiraT Mini.
This user guide describes hardware and interfaces as well as the general functions of the blue
PiraT Mini. The configuration and converting of the logged trace data is described in the user
guide of the Telemotive System Client.
This document refers to firmware version 02.04.01 and the Telemotive System Client from
version 2.4.1. Some features depending on model and feature license or may not be available
in older versions.
Software updates and user guides for other, optional, licensed enhancements are available in
the Telemotive ServiceCenter. (Please find the address under Contact at the last page.)
To ensure the most reliable operation of your system as possible, please make sure to use al-
ways current firmware and software versions.
Index

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4 System requirements
Control Unit
A Windows based Laptop or PC is needed to configure the devices of Telemotive AG by
Telemotive System Client. It also allows to save the recorded data and to use them offline
later.
Telemotive System Client
The software client is used for configuring the data logger as well as downloading the recorded
data or convert these into your needed file format. An firmware update can be performed by the
Telemotive System Client too to ensure that your devices are always up to date.
blue PiraT Mini
The communication between bus systems and control units is monitored and relevant data can
be recorded very precisely with the data logger of Telemotive AG. The collected data are stored
to the logger and can be downloaded via Ethernet to a PC.
The blue PiraT Mini is smallest data logger in the world with an outstanding functional scope. It
offers a wide range of interfaces, stable temperature behavior, very low energy consumption,
four GBit Ethernet ports, and much more. Different blue PiraT Mini can be flexibly expanded to
one cluster and therefore handled very easily by using Telemotive System Link.
License
For some additional features an installed license is required. Settings for licensed features can
be performed with a valid license only.
If you need a license for your logger, please contact our sales department (please find the ad-
dress under contact at the last page).

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4.1 Further manuals
Beside this user guide we offer the main manuals for our client as well as for the different data
logger generations in our ServiceCenter at https://sc.telemotive.de/bluepirat.
User manual for the Telemotive System Client
https://sc.telemotive.de/4/uploads/media/TelemotiveSystemClient_UserManual.pdf
User manual for blue PiraT2 / blue PiraT2 5E
https://www.telemotive.de/4/uploads/media/blue_PiraT2_UserManual.pdf
User manual for blue PiraT Mini
https://www.telemotive.de/4/uploads/media/blue_PiraT_Mini_UserManual.pdf
User manual for Remote Control Touch
https://sc.telemotive.de/4/uploads/media/RCTouch_UserGuide.pdf
User manual for blue PiraT Remote
https://sc.telemotive.de/4/uploads/media/blue_PiraT_Remote_UserGuide.pdf
For having an easy access if necessary, the most important manuals are linked in the client
under the menu item [Help] and are reachable easily from there.
Figure 4.1: links to the manuals
Our licensed enhancements have own manuals which are stored in the ServiceCenter too. You
will find a list of these enhancements in the user manuals in the chapter Additional features by
optional licenses.
Index

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5 The blue PiraT Mini system
The blue PiraT Mini is a data logger, which offers the following interfaces, depending on the
model:
Figure 5.1: Interface (overview)
The data logger can be mounted in a vehicle and due to his large storage capacity of the hard
drive of currently approx. 50 GB usable space, the blue PiraT Mini is able to support extensive
test runs. After the data has been gathered it has to be downloaded via Ethernet. For the down-
load and the conversion of the logging data the Telemotive System Client is available.
For the available conversion options to various trace file formats please have a look at chapter
12.1 Conversion format overview. The blue PiraT Mini is available with different features (see
chapter 5.2
Ethernet
8x HS-CAN
1x LS-CAN
8x LIN
1x MOST150
3x FlexRay a/b
5x Serial
1x ECL
2x Broad-R-Reach®
4x GB Ethernet/TSL
1x USB 2.0 Device/Host
2x Analog/Digital IN
2x Digital OUT
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Additional features by optional licenses).
The blue PiraT Mini is designed to create minimum interference with the vehicle’s bus systems
and interfaces. The data logger listens to the data traffic without operating as a bus node.
Additionally to the data recording functionality, the blue PiraT Mini provides online data pro-
cessing functions:
simple CAN and MOST filters
custom-defined messages can trigger the setting of markers
5.1 Accessories
There are various accessories available for the blue PiraT Mini data logger:
various adapter cables
the Remote Control Voice, which additionally allows recording of voice note
licenses which enhance the functionality of the blue PiraT Mini
mounting bracket
Please contact Telemotive sales for more information about these accessories.
Manuals are available from the Telemotive ServiceCenter.