What are the differences between the CAN Communications Formats in MoTeC Displays?

Fixed Binary, Hex and Decimal

The Fixed options are use when the start byte and length are specified in the message template to indicate where in the message each channel start and stops.  Most CAN templates are formatted in this manner.

Delimited Hex and Delimited Binary

The Delimited option is used when you have a data stream that is transmitting the data in either a Hexadecimal or Decimal Format and that has the transmitted channels divided by a particular character, this is mostly seen in Serial or RS232 data streams, rather than in CAN Messaging.  This is an example of a Delimited message stream, in this case, the GPS NMEA message stream that is transmitted over Serial.

Fast Binary (16 bit)

This is the same as Fixed Binary, except that the alignment is fixed as Normal and the character length is fixed at 2 (16bit), as these values are fixed, there is a reduction in CPU usage with this format.