https://github.com/julietkilo/kcd

An open format to describe communication relationships in Controller Area Networks (CAN).
https://github.com/julietkilo/kcd

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An open format to describe communication relationships in Controller Area Networks (CAN).

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/julietkilo/kcd
• Owner: julietkilo
• Created: 2015-06-06T14:03:51.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-03-03T16:24:16.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-04T04:07:35.745Z (6 months ago)
• Size: 5.86 KB
• Stars: 75
• Watchers: 11
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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• awesome-canbus - KCD - An open format to describe communication relationships in CAN. similar to DBC format but written in XML. (CAN Database / Formats (DBC, KCD))

README

        
# kcd

An open format to describe communication relationships in Controller Area Networks (CAN).

## Overview

The KCD format was created because most CAN databases are stored in proprietary formats that are not documented and can not be used for free.

The open source CAN analysis tool [**Kayak**](https://github.com/dschanoeh/Kayak/ "Kayak is an application for CAN bus diagnosis and monitoring") introduced a new and well documented XML based format: KCD (file suffix .kcd). KCD is the acronym for Kayak CAN definition.

## Description of the format

The Location of the original KCD schema in XSD format is

https://github.com/dschanoeh/Kayak/blob/master/Kayak-kcd/src/main/resources/com/github/kayak/canio/kcd/loader/Definition.xsd

## Example

A sample KCD file in XML format can be found here

https://github.com/dschanoeh/Kayak/blob/master/Kayak-kcd/src/test/resources/can_definition_sample.kcd

## Projects

Projects that are using this format:

    

        can4pythonhttps://github.com/caran/can4python

    

    

        Canmatrix Convert Libray and Toolhttps://github.com/ebroecker/canmatrix

        

    

        CANBabelhttps://github.com/julietkilo/CANBabel

    

    

        Kayakhttps://github.com/dschanoeh/Kayak
http://kayak.2codeornot2code.org/

        

    

        openCanSuitehttps://github.com/sebi2k1/openCanSuite

    

    

        Cantoolshttps://github.com/eerimoq/cantools

    

    

        dbcppphttps://github.com/xR3b0rn/dbcppp

    

    

        Simple IoThttps://github.com/simpleiot/simpleiot
https://docs.simpleiot.org/docs/user/can.html

    

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## Licence

The files that are describing the format are published under the Lesser GPL license. The KCD format is copyrighted by Jan-Niklas Meier (dschanoeh) and Jens Krueger (julietkilo). According to the authors this does not imply any licensing restrictions on software libraries implementing the KCD file format, or on software using those libraries.