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EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR can load and combine multiple EHANDBOOK files. This allows you to add more than one EHANDBOOK container to a project and work with all relevant content in a single environment.

EHANDBOOK containers can include multiple predefined documentation views. A documentation view is a predefined table of contents (TOC) that presents content tailored to a specific target group. For example, calibration engineers can select a view that contains only the content relevant to a calibration package, while system architects can select a view that shows how functions are organized in the software architecture.

The integrated Model Viewer in EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR lets you explore ASCET block diagram models, Simulink models, and C-Code-derived models. You can navigate within a model and across hierarchy levels. Auto-layout functions create clear and seamless model views, and nested models can be flattened where required.

The Label pop-up displays metadata for labels and other elements in Function Overview diagrams, interactive models, and SVG images, as well as values for calibration parameters. For curves and maps, the Label pop-up also provides the corresponding 2D/3D plots.

Seamless function wallpaper supports navigation from a Function Overview directly to interactive models in the same window. It provides a seamless connection between Function Overviews and Function Specifications (ASCET/Simulink) or Function Implementations (C-Code).

While exploring interactive models, you may need to view the related documentation. EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR allows you to open the corresponding content in the Document Viewer. This is supported for ASCET block diagram models, Simulink models, and C-Code-derived models, including navigation across hierarchy levels.

The Search feature helps you navigate large amounts of documentation efficiently. You can search precisely for semantic information in documentation content and interactive models. Semantic information includes measurement variables, calibration parameters, and system constants that are tagged in the EHANDBOOK container. Search results are grouped by semantic category and highlighted in the displayed content.

EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR allows you to determine dependencies between blocks in interactive models, for example inputs and outputs of functions, calibration parameters, and measurement variables. The service is available for ASCET block diagram models, Simulink models, and C-Code-derived models. Wherever applicable, it also works across hierarchy levels, for example when connections in a subhierarchy are followed in a block diagram. Both highlighting and hiding of blocks and connections are supported. Highlighted blocks and components are shown in red, while hidden blocks and components are shown in grey.

EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR allows you to establish a connection to a running INCA experiment. This gives you an integrated view of the algorithm specification of a function, for example an ASCET block diagram, together with the values measured in the INCA experiment. Measurement variables and calibration parameters from a running INCA experiment can be displayed directly in the interactive model in the Model Viewer.

You can also configure which measurement variables and calibration parameters shown in the interactive model should display values. Starting the visualization and stopping the measurement of an INCA experiment directly from EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR are also supported. EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR can also help you prepare the initial setup at your desk even when no hardware is connected to INCA. Once the setup is ready, you can connect the system to the hardware device and execute the experiments.

EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR can combine documentation with previously recorded measurement values and their timestamps. In contrast to live visualization, where time advances at a constant pace, for example one sample every 250 ms, offline visualization allows the calibration engineer to move back to the point before an unexpected value occurred and investigate the cause. Based on this analysis, the engineer can adjust calibration values or report a defect to the ECU software developer.

Two cursors, Cursor A and Cursor B, are available for offline measurement analysis. You can also load calibration and measurement files such as .a2l, .hex, .s19, .dcm, .cdfx, .xml, .dat, .mf3, and .mf4 to display related data in the Label pop-up, including limits, data types, and values for calibration parameters. The Measurement and Calibration Files functionality in EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR allows calibration engineers to work with previously recorded data, for example data recorded with INCA. This helps them gain a better understanding of functions and signal flows.

Measure Data Analyzer 8 (MDA 8) is an ETAS product for visualizing and analyzing measurement data. You can connect EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR through the MDA 8 configuration. The Connect feature in MDA 8 starts EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR, opens the corresponding documentation file (*.ehb), and supports navigation between the hierarchy model and the model image of an ASCET/Simulink model in the Document Viewer for the currently loaded measurement file.

You can also request the documentation for a signal from MDA 8 within the currently loaded documentation. EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR then performs a global search for that signal and displays all occurrences in EHB. In addition, you can continue your analysis in EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR after updating the measurement file in MDA 8.

ClickPic helps you navigate quickly between a hierarchy model and the corresponding model image of an ASCET/Simulink model in the Document Viewer.

Virtual connections are highlighted in interactive models, including ASCET, Simulink, and C-Code-derived models, as well as in Function Overview diagrams.

EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR keeps a record of recently viewed topics and models while you explore the content of an EHANDBOOK container. This gives you a list of previously visited locations and allows you to return to them whenever needed. The history is cleared when a new container is loaded.

EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR allows you to print both documentation content and interactive models. Before printing, you can adjust the page setup as required, including scaling, page orientation, page size, and margins.

EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR can be configured to remain available in the Windows System Tray when you close the product.

EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR allows you to export the selected model or Function Overview diagram as an image.

EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR displays label values only for highlighted signals. This helps you focus on the values that are relevant to the current analysis.

EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR supports linking hardware devices either to a single device or to multiple devices. This is required when visualizing labels and values received from INCA or from a measurement file.

EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR allows you to generate a new container by selecting the required function components from a loaded container.

EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR allows you to export the contents of a selected functional component to a PDF file.