can-newsletter.org - Miscellaneous

Education

CAN and CANopen seminars in 2021

2021-03-04 CAN in Automation (CiA) has scheduled its seminars for 2021. The first CAN seminars take place on March 23, and April 20, 2021. The first CANopen ones on March 24 and April 21, 2021.

General assembly

Board of directors re-elected in 2021

2021-02-26 The nonprofit international CAN in Automation (CiA) users’ and manufacturers’ association hold its annual general assembly in 2021 again as online meeting, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Controller Area Network

Happy Birthday

2021-02-25 On February 25, 1986, Bosch presented the CAN protocol in Detroit (USA) at an SAE conference. Five years later, Mercedes launched the W140 model of its luxury S-class cars implementing five CAN-connectable ECUs (electronic control unit).

17^th iCC goes online

Postponed conference re-scheduled

2021-02-22 CAN in Automation (CiA) has re-schedule the 17^th international CAN Conference (iCC) which has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. It is held as an online event in June 2021.

Isobus-based

Optimized tractor control

2021-02-19 The TIM (tractor implement management) solution enables the implement to control securely certain tractor functions. Recently, the AEF association has released the TIM specification version 2.

Social media

CiA goes Youtube

2021-02-03 Since last year, CAN in Automation (CiA) uploads CAN-themed videos on its own Youtube channel. Recently, the company uploaded several webinars in English and Chinese language as well as a range of presentations at CiA technology days with various CAN...

Online events

CANopen Lift and CleANopen profile webinars in February

2021-01-27 In 2021, CAN in Automation (CiA) again organizes several CAN-related webinars about various topics. In February, the first ones with the topics CANopen Lift (02 February, 2021) and CleANopen (25 February, 2021) take place. They are free of charge and...

Third board member

Vector Informatik expands board of directors

2021-01-11 Dr. Stefan Krauß joins the team of managing directors at Vector Informatik effective January 01, 2021.

The year of 2021

CAN XL and CAN FD Light are in the pipeline

2021-01-08 CiA technical groups are busy in developing specifications. The nonprofit association develops CAN-related specifications from the physical layer to the application layer as well as bus-independent profiles standardizing the payload of the applicatio...

AEF and Isobus

The UT 3 project and other activities

2021-01-08 The Universal Terminal (UT) project made some progress. The conformance testing to the Isobus standard was finalized.

CiA 301 compliant

Three tested CANopen devices

2021-01-07 End of December three devices passed the CANopen conformance test at the CiA test center. CiA (CAN in Automation) provides a test report to the device suppliers.

CAN Newsletter magazine

Change in automotive communication systems

2020-12-07 The authors take a look on the transformational change of Classical CAN, CAN FD, CAN XL, Flexray, and Ethernet. CAN XL provides the basis for cooperation between IP technology and signal-based communication. It closes the gap between CAN FD and Ether...

CAN Newsletter magazine

CiA’s 700^th member: Rohde & Schwarz

2020-12-07 The 700^th CiA member is not a typical one: It is a provider of oscilloscopes, which comes with software for Classical CAN and CAN FD. The company located in Germany supports also other automotive networks including wireless communication.

Emergency vehicles

Vehicle management system for mobile use

2020-12-04 RDS Connected Fleet from Rosenbauer records processes in emergency vehicles. CAN data is stored on a telematics module installed in the vehicle and transmitted to the central data memory. Vehicle position, operation, and status is evaluated and can b...

Interoperability test

CANopen linear actuator passed test

2020-11-17 The CiA-301-certified LAxxCAN by Linak passed the CANopen interoperability test ensuring the device’s capability of interacting with a variety of CANopen devices from multiple vendors.

Cooperation

Serving mobile machines and automotive markets

2020-10-26 Sensor-Technik Wiedemann (STW) and MRS Electronic are pooling their expertise. No re-labeling is intended.

Free webinar

CANopen-based motion control

2020-10-14 Copley Controls and Kvaser jointly organize the webinar starting at 17:00 p.m. (CEST) on 21 October 2020.