VehicleLab — Docs & resources
Read the engineering.
Briefs, guides and developer surfaces for every instrument in the suite.
Start with a product brief, go deeper with the MDF4 and calibration guides, or wire MDX into your own pipeline through its API, SDK and MCP server.
- Suite
- 1 suite overview brief
- Calibration
- 3 calibration briefs
- Diagnostics
- 1 diagnostic brief
- Workbench
- 3 measurement & agent briefs
Product briefs
The briefs, by instrument.
Each brief reads as a web page, and comes as a slide-format PDF of 7–12 pages to open in the reader or download for the team.
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Suite
The VehicleLab suite
Architecture, engineering interfaces, and local-first data containment across the integrated toolchain.
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MDX
MDX — measurement analysis
MDF4 measurement indexing, high-resolution oscilloscope inspection, and local Model Context Protocol integration.
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CIE Pro
CIE Pro — model-based calibration
Space-filling Design of Experiments, physics-informed neural surrogates, and constrained Bayesian optimization.
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HELIX
HELIX — calibration data management
Enterprise ECU calibration data management, semantic 3-way change merging, and verified release generation.
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Hexx
Hexx — A2L-aware image editing
A2L-aware ECU binary and hex editor with interactive 3D map editing and automated checksum recomputation.
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DiagAI
DiagAI — diagnostic agents
Multi-agent automotive diagnostic intelligence covering ISO 14229 UDS, OBD-II, and J1939 with on-premise containment.
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XHandbook
XHandbook — ECU function documentation
Interactive ECU function documentation navigator, KAOM model exploration, and bi-directional A2L linking.
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Orbis
Orbis — agent workbench
Agentic engineering workspace for ECU software, measurement analysis, and calibration drops with review gates.
Guides
Guides for the file formats and the workflow.
- GuideWhat is MDF4? The ASAM MDF4 guideFile structure, channel groups and how to analyse MDF files as an OEM test team.↗
- GuideA2L and HEX files: the ECU map workflowHow a description resolves image bytes into named maps, and what to verify before an edit.↗
- How-toHow to open and read MF4 filesThe practical options for opening .mf4 measurement files in 2026.↗
- ComparisonETAS INCA alternativeModel-based calibration with DoE and Bayesian optimisation, on-premise.↗
- ComparisonEHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR alternativesReading ECU documentation containers without a licence server.↗
- Comparisonasammdf alternativeWhen the open-source MDF library is enough, and when a measurement lab is not.↗
- ComparisonVector CANape alternativeWhich part of the CANape job the suite replaces, and which it does not.↗
- ReferenceKnow-how: protocols and formatsUDS, XCP, DoIP, J1939, CAN FD, DBC and the rest, explained plainly.↗
- Field notesCase studiesThe toolchain in calibration and diagnostics workflows.↗
Developers
Build on the instruments.
MDX runs as a desktop app with a local service beside it, so everything the UI can do, a script or an agent can do too. The full API reference ships with the build.
- MDX
Local REST API
Files, channels, signal data, batch analysis and anomaly detection over HTTP at 127.0.0.1:5001, next to the desktop app.
- MDX
Python SDK
The mdx_client package wraps the REST API for scripted analysis, notebooks and CI jobs.
- MDX
MCP server
Twelve tools over stdio and SSE, so Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor or Gemini can drive the lab directly.
- XHandbook
build-ehb
A stand-alone tool that turns an A2L plus PDF or HEX into an EHANDBOOK-style container.
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