Complete hardware and software bench for the CAN bus

Nowadays, the automotive industry has increasingly to integrate electronic systems in cars, but it causes an important problem relating to their reliability. For getting that reliability better it is necessary a great cost using current methods and equipment. This paper explains an application that may help to reduce the cost for testing cars. Through the CAN bus our proposal can read the message sent by the car's control unit, then record, analyze and represent it. The proposed system has been designed, implemented and tested. Some of the experimental results are shown to illustrate its functionality.