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 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:

can4python	https://github.com/caran/can4python
Canmatrix Convert Libray and Tool	https://github.com/ebroecker/canmatrix
CANBabel	https://github.com/julietkilo/CANBabel
Kayak	https://github.com/dschanoeh/Kayak http://kayak.2codeornot2code.org/
openCanSuite	https://github.com/sebi2k1/openCanSuite
Cantools	https://github.com/eerimoq/cantools
dbcppp	https://github.com/xR3b0rn/dbcppp
Simple IoT	https://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.