RA Consulting, GmbH is a leading German software company in automotive diagnostic development tools. The RA software products principally support the development departments of the leading German automobile manufacturers and their tier-I suppliers in the diagnostics and calibration of their electronic control units. The vast amounts of data involved here can then be managed reliably and economically with RA database products. Our customers now include over 70 leading names from the automotive industry.

DiagRA MCD

The DiagRA MCD Toolset is an applications and diagnostics tool for working with electronic control units in the automotive industry. It is a integration of the already widespread tools: MescaRA, CalimeRA, Codes and DiagRA . The functional range continues to exist in the three options DiagRA M, DiagRA C and DiagRA D .

The significant advantage for the user is in particular the common use of the device driver for the interface hardware, of protocols and parsers for the descriptive files in A2L or DBC format. Acquired data can be used across all tools. It is thus possible to graphically display series of measurements from diagnostic measured value blocks for comparison purposes in DiagRA M and to simultaneously calibrate it in the DiagRA C adjustment option. On-line operation can be started and terminated from all three parts of the toolset. Thereby, whenever it is technically possible, the same interface hardware is used. In spite of this, for example if there are several CAN buses, it is still possible to operate several interfaces. The settings necessary for this can be carried out centrally.

During this integration process it was particularly important to ensure that the individual toolset options could run separately. The approximately 5000 users of our DiagRA diagnostics tool will be able to find this again completely in the DiagRA D software. For the upgrade all that's required is a valid software maintenance contract. Each of the current users can buy the other options and add them to his tool, which is already on an operating system, by means of a simple upgrade, provided they are available on the same operating system.