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Softing DTS Monaco

Softing DTS Monaco, the ODX engineering tester named Modular Analyzer for Vehicle Communication, including Mercedes-Benz development use.

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Softing’s engineering tester

DTS Monaco is an off-board engineering diagnostic application from Softing, part of Softing’s Diagnostic Tool Set. Softing expands Monaco as Modular Analyzer for Vehicle Communication. It is not a Mercedes-Benz dealer product. Guided workshop diagnosis of Mercedes vehicles is XENTRY Diagnosis, with DAS for supported older series. The factory hardware and the other software packages are mapped on the factory diagnostic equipment page.

Mercedes-Benz development advertisements do list DTS Monaco among the tools those engineering teams use, alongside Vector CANoe and, depending on the role, CANape or INCA. That shows Mercedes development use. It does not make DTS Monaco a Mercedes application, and it does not mean a workshop licence can perform every XENTRY commissioning function.

DTS Monaco bus trace, symbolic trace and diagnostic-services tree for an example ECU
DTS 8 Monaco workspace from Softing’s datasheet: bus trace, symbolic trace and the diagnostic-services tree. The project is Softing’s example ECU, and the identification response in the trace reads SOFTING. Excerpt from Softing Automotive, DTS 8 Monaco datasheet, 21 December 2017; © Softing Automotive. Quoted as a contextual visual extract under the UK quotation exception, Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 30(1ZA). Complete datasheet.

What Softing says it does

The current Softing product page describes DTS.monaco as one engineering tester covering ECU communication, function test, validation, system test, preparation of manufacturing and after-sales sequences, and test-bench or HiL commissioning. Functions named there include reading and clearing the error memory, variant identification, flash programming, measurement values, actuator tests, variant coding, OBD checks, and test sequences in OTX (ISO 13209). Diagnostic data is ODX. The page also describes a DoIP monitor in generation 9, bus trace, symbolic trace and a diagnostic-services view. Layouts are configurable; the controls only do what the loaded ODX database and the connected interface support.

Softing’s generation 9 order numbers, as published on that page, separate the scope:

PackageSofting’s description
DTS9+MON-BASEGeneric diagnostic services, specified OTX processes and the OBD conformity check, including creation and editing of workspaces.
DTS9+MON-PROBASE plus complex processes in the interface: DTC, ECU identification, flash programming and quick test, plus remote-diagnosis support.
DTS9+MON-TBThe PRO interface plus use of the diagnostic kernel and OTX runtime from third-party test-bench applications.

The December 2017 DTS 8 datasheet used a different licence split, including a restricted engineering tester, a configuration option, a flash tool and an OBD tool. A DTS 8 workspace is not the same product as a current DTS 9 licence. Softing lists Windows 10 and Windows 11, 64-bit, for generation 9.

Relation to Vediamo

Vediamo is the Mercedes-Benz CAESAR/DIOGENES application described in the internal version 05.00 handbook of September 2012. DTS Monaco is Softing’s ODX tester. Both can be used for engineering-level diagnostic services, measurements, variant coding and programming, but they are different programs with different databases. This page does not claim that Mercedes retired Vediamo on a particular date. Reseller descriptions that treat “Vediamo or Monaco” as one Mercedes secret menu are combining two products.

Flash programming in DTS Monaco follows the ODX flash description and the interface in use. It is not a substitute for an authorised XENTRY control-unit update, and it is not evidence that seed-and-key or online rights can be ignored. Softing’s own description of flash jobs includes security access as one of the mechanisms the tester has to support, which is the opposite of a bypass.

Sources

Curated reference notes. Applicability follows the cited sources; hardware testing by this wiki is not implied.