Natioanl Instrument Bus Monitor

[cwooi25]

Dear all,
Where can I get the information manual on how to analyse/understand the fieldbus communication data collected using National Instrument (NI) Bus Monitor software. The manual provided by NI is more on how to use the software but what I need is to understand the data collected.
Thanks....

[jberge]

The manual that comes with the SMAR bus monitor called FBView includes a fair bit of text on how to makes sense of the messages you capture and to draw conclusions from it. Contact me directly on the address below. However, most non-experts simply use the FBView sniffer to capture communication and then email it to expert to draw conclusions.

[flaviostz]

Jonas is right.

Most of the bus analisys is displayed in a low level bits/bytes languague.
This is difficult for a user to understand, unless the user is a FF developer.
Flávio.

Dear all,
Where can I get the information manual on how to analyse/understand the fieldbus communication data collected using National Instrument (NI) Bus Monitor software. The manual provided by NI is more on how to use the software but what I need is to understand the data collected.
Thanks....

[Stephen Mitschke]

I do agree with Jonas and Flavio.

The Fieldbus Foundation's Advanced Technical Workshop does cover the usage of the NI Bus Monitor in our 3 day workshop. However, this class is focused more for developers rather than users.

However, we have had users take this course in the past. Just be prepared for a very technical discussion (ie, the bits and bytes) regarding FF.

-Stephen