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XCP, or Universal Measurement and Calibration Protocol, is a network protocol developed by ASAM for connecting calibration systems to electronic control units (ECUs), allowing access to variables and memory at runtime. Standardized in 2003, XCP supports various transport layers and enhances resource utilization in ECUs, enabling synchronous data stimulation and optimized communication. It serves as a flexible interface for analog measurement devices and can be implemented on low-resource microcontrollers while maintaining high scalability.

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Computer Science 233 Chapter 1 Guide

XCP, or Universal Measurement and Calibration Protocol, is a network protocol developed by ASAM for connecting calibration systems to electronic control units (ECUs), allowing access to variables and memory at runtime. Standardized in 2003, XCP supports various transport layers and enhances resource utilization in ECUs, enabling synchronous data stimulation and optimized communication. It serves as a flexible interface for analog measurement devices and can be implemented on low-resource microcontrollers while maintaining high scalability.

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University of Oklahoma - Summer 2021

Computer science 233, Chapter 1 Guide

Professor Simpson, Section 5

March 19, 2021

XCP (or) "Universal Measurement and Calibration Protocol" is a network protocol

originating from ASAM for connecting calibration systems to electronic control units, ECUs.

Consequently, It enables read and write access to variables and memory contents of

microcontroller systems at runtime.

Class Date: 26/5/2024

Professor’s Comment: Please add more depth to your historical analysis.

GENERIC CONTENT:

## Findings

Entire datasets can be acquired or stimulated synchronous to events triggered by timers or

operating conditions. In addition, XCP also supports programming of flash memory.

## Analysis

ASAM states "The primary purpose of XCP is to adjust internal parameters and acquire the
current values of internal variables of an ECU. The first letter X in XCP expresses the fact

that the protocol is designed for a variety of bus systems."

## Discussion (List)

- In 2003, the protocol was standardized as "ASAM MCD-1 XCP".

- XCP is a successor to CAN Calibration Protocol (CCP) that was developed back in the mid-

1990s.

- At that time, CAN was the dominant networking system in the automobile industry.

## Background (List)

- Over time, other bus systems such as LIN, MOST and FlexRay emerged and made it

necessary to extend the protocol to other transport media.

- In addition, XCP supports synchronous and asynchronous serial interfaces.

## Conclusion

With Ethernet or USB as the transport medium, XCP can also serve as a standardized

interface to analog measurement devices and to hardware interface converters to RAM

emulators, JTAG or other microcontroller debug interfaces. Due to its broad range of use, a

primary goal in the development of XCP was to achieve as lean an implementation in the

ECU as possible and high scalability of features and resource utilization. XCP can even be

implemented on 8-bit microcontrollers for CAN or SCI with few resources, and it exploits

the full potential of FlexRay or Ethernet on high-performance platforms. As a two-layer


protocol, XCP consistently separates the protocol and transport layers from one another

and adheres to a Single-Master/Multi-Slave concept. XCP always uses the same protocol

layer independent of the transport layer.

## Findings

The “X” in its name stands for the variable and interchangeable transport layer. Currently,

the following transport layers are defined as standard by ASAM as of October 2016:

XCP on CAN

XCP on CAN FD

XCP on SxI (SPI, SCI)

XCP on Ethernet (TCP/IP and UDP/IP)

XCP on USB

XCP on FlexRay

In addition to supporting other transport layers, the successor to the CCP protocol contains

many functional improvements such as:

Better resource utilization in the ECU

Synchronous data stimulation

Support of start-up measurements

Optimized communication by block transfer commands

Plug & play configuration

More precise measurement data acquisition by measuring the time stamps in the ECU

(Slave)
XCP allows a client to access memory on the ECU using a format defined in a separate A2L

file. Because the A2L format file contains all the information to access the information, the

ECU code does not have to be recompiled to access different measurements or calibrations.

## Analysis (List)

- == References ==

== External links ==

ASAM official Web site of ASAM e.V.

- ASAM MCD-1 XCP description of the standard at the ASAM Web site

Web page for ordering the free XCP Technical Book from Vector Informatik

References / Works Cited:

1. Wikipedia (n.d.). Retrieved from https://wikipedia.org/

2. Random Book Title (2022). Academic Publishing House.

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