MoTeC Display Creator User Manual
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Display Creator Tabs
Display Creator User Manual – MoTeC Ⓒ 2014 Published 1 July 2014
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Compound
Optionally, a message may contain further addressing of the signals by extending the address into the data section of the message.
The location of the compound address is specified, and signals associated with this message must match the Address and the
Compound ID.
Compound Checkbox — Check to identify use of extended addressing.
Compound ID
A compound address value for associated channels.
Type
Used to set the format of the received value. Unsigned integer values are absolute, containing values from 0 to max
for the bit length of the signal. Integer values use the two's complement format giving negative and positive values
in equal proportions.
Offset
The Offset and Length settings tell the device where the compound ID is within the message.
Length
Signal Element
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Messages, signals and channels can be manually created and set up, or automatically added by importing
the DBC file created in Dash Manager when a Dash/Logger configuration is saved. See
Not all signals need to be assigned to channels. Unassigned signals are not received.
These are the properties with a Signal element selected.
A signal can be a single bit, or number of bits of the data transmitted in the data section of a CAN message.
The data section contains up to 8 bytes, or 64 bits of data. A signal can comprise between 1 and 32 bits of the
entire 64 bits of data.
General
Name
User defined name given to the signal.
Signal
Channel
The Display Creator channel associated with this signal. The selection list is populated from the channels created in
the Channel & Functions tab.