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    Quote Originally Posted by Diolum View Post
    I can't understand the meanings of:
    (-0030) is it a Data-0x30 ?
    >0004 is it a bit shift to the right of 4?
    Yes, that's right. These are bitwise operations. For more details see this post.

    {b} what is this ?
    Your guess is as good as mine. The field is labeled "INDEX" in the module description files, but that does not tell us much. Over all modules and all chassis I see values from a to z and B, C, F & H (but these might be mistakenly uppercase).

    also at the start I can find this: (comment in bold)
    SIGNATURE : 00010001010163 02 Unknown function with CS?
    The signature is simply the data bytes of the first two frames of the module description file. I don't know what these represent, but the frames are identical between all modules description files.

    --------------- Unknown function
    0000 - DATEINAME - S - NAME
    0001 - SGID_CODIERINDEX - B(B) - WERT,WERT2
    0002 - SGID_HARDWARENUMMER - S(S) - WERT,WERT2
    [..]
    This is literally the content of the header of the module description file. It's a legend of the frame formats in the file.

    The strange structure behind the name shows the data formats of the fields in the frame: L = 32-bit unsigned, W = 16-bit unsigned, S = string, B = byte (or character), A = bitwise operation or option. The brackets and braces indicate the occurrence: {} = 0..1, () = 0..n.

    For example, 0002 - SGID_HARDWARENUMMER - S(S) - WERT,WERT2 tells us a frame with id 0x0002 represents the "SGID_HARDWARENUMMER" (device hardware number). The frame contains two fields: A string field with name WERT (value) and a string collection with name WERT2 (value2).

    SPEICHERORG : "BYTE" "FREI" What is it ?
    This indicates the memory address layout of the module. The structure tells whether its values are 8-bit or 16-bit and the type whether it uses a free addressing or block addressing.

    ANLIEFERZUSTAND : (00) Delivery condition ?
    It is the initial value of something, but I don't know what. Common values are 00 and FF but a few modules have 01.

    KENNUNG_ALL : "G" 0046 () What is it ?
    KENNUNG_ALL : "B" 0000 (0060,0061) What is it ?
    KENNUNG_ALL : "Z" 0062 () What is it ?

    KENNUNG_K : "$IDCDNR" "25" () For coding index 25
    KENNUNG_K : "$IDHWNR" "**" () Hardware number all
    KENNUNG_K : "$IDSWNR" "78" ("82","8C","96","A0","AA","B4","BE","C8") SW number of list
    KENNUNG_D : 0000-0003 (0005-001D,0024-002F,0031-0031,0033-0033,0035-0035,0037-0037,0039-003B,003D-003F) What is it ?
    KENNUNG_D : 0045-0045 (004A-005B) What is it ?
    I don't know the precise meaning of the KENNUNG_* fields, but they often indicate special locations in the memory like the position of a checksum or VIN. In the example above from the KMB_E36.C25 module:

    KENNUNG_ALL : "G" 0046 The VIN starts at address 0x46
    KENNUNG_ALL : "B" 0000 (0060,0061) Address 0x61 contains a checksum calculated over range 0x00-0x60
    KENNUNG_ALL : "Z" 0062 The ZCS (GM/SA/VN) starts at address 0x62

    As you can see there is still a bit unknown about the module description files. There is no (public) documentation, so everything we know was found through reverse engineering or trial and error. I don't think that what is still unknown holds much value, though.

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    Thanks a lot for the quick and informative answer. I need to document myself more.

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