ADTF Device Toolbox 3 Guides

These are the guides of the ADTF Device Toolbox 3 describing the features of the newest version of the ADTF Device Toolbox. The toolbox provides filters an services to connect several external communication system devices to ADTF. The Guides are designed to immediately make you productive with the ADTF Device Toolbox 3 and help you to understand, how all of the pieces fit together.

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Guide assumptions

The guides are made for beginners who want to get started with ADTF Device Toolbox from scratch. They do not assume that you have any prior experience with this toolbox. However, to get the most out of it, you should meet these prerequisites:

Your OS is Windows 10 (otherwise you have to do a little transfer work)
You have a complete ADTF and Device Toolbox delivery
The versions of ADTF itself and the toolbox fit together
You should have a valid ADTF license (otherwise request a license)
To follow the coding examples you should have installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2019
You should use CMake 3.18 or newer

Further resources about ADTF Device Toolbox:

ADTF Device Toolbox SDK - delivered content, architecture, concepts, class and function descriptions

Before you start make yourself confirm with ADTF itself (ADTF Guides).

Please also keep in mind that these guides only handle information about the ADTF Device Toolbox delivery. For more detailed help regarding other deliveries (e.g. ADTF, Calibration or Display Toolbox), please have a look at the specific documentation of each product.

Start here

Getting Started: Everything you need to know about the ADTF Device Toolbox and how to start your first Session.

Tools

Signal Config Filter Editor (SCFE): This chapter will break down editing a Device Toolbox Filter with the SCFE.
Device Toolbox ADTF DAT Tool Plugins: *.adtffileplugins which can be used within the ADTF ADTF DAT Tool to convert Device Toolbox DAT streams to supported file formats and vice versa

Tutorials

Rebuilding the examples: This tutorial shows how to rebuild the examples by yourself.
DirectShow Video Capture Device: This tutorial shows how to create a sample streaming source that receives pictures from a DirectShow Video Capture Device.
SOME/IP decoding: This tutorial shows how to use the SOME/IP services of the Decice Toolbox in ADTF. Use this Decoder if you want to use an ARXML file as your database.
CAN FD Decoder: This tutorial shows how to use the CAN Decoder of the Device Toolbox in ADTF. Use this Decoder if you want to use an ARXML file as your database.
FlexRay Decoder: This tutorial shows how to use the FlexRay Decoder of the Device Toolbox in ADTF.
CAN FD Substream Decoder (Deprecated): This tutorial shows how to use the CAN FD Substream Decoder of the Device Toolbox in ADTF.
FlexRay Substream Decoder (Deprecated): This tutorial shows how to use the CAN FD Substream Decoder of the Device Toolbox in ADTF.