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CANopen profiles

SIG subsea and SIG truck gateway awaked

2021-01-28 CAN in Automation (CiA) reviews periodically its profile specifications. In order to review pending comments and to discuss new functional requests, two special interest groups (SIG) have been re-established.

DIN 4630-E

Pre-standard for truck body builder

2021-01-22 The Beuth publishing house has released the standard proposal on parameters for body application units (BAU) for commercial vehicles. The pre-standard is written in English language.

CiA 406-J, CiA 410-J, CiA 510

Specifications updated

2021-01-08 CiA (CAN in Automation) has released new versions of the CiA 406-J and CiA 410-J documents specifying the mapping of the encoder profile respectively the inclinometer profile to J1939 parameter groups.

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CANopen devices in J1939 networks

2020-12-08 There are many CANopen devices, especially sensors, which are not available with standardized J1939 interfaces. However, J1939 system designers like to use them, in particular in construction machines and similar applications.

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Injector and scanner communication

2020-12-07 After release of the CAN FD based CiA 1301 (CANopen FD) specification in 2017, it is time to look at the benefits, which can be offered for communication between injector and scanner as defined in CiA 425-1 and CiA 425-2 for CANopen.

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The physical layer in the CAN XL world

2020-12-04 This article explains the CAN SIC XL transceiver approach and concept, the challenges in the networks, and how to combine the CAN XL protocol with the existing CAN FD transceiver, CAN SIC transceiver, and the CAN SIC XL transceiver.

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3rd generation of the CAN data link layer

2020-12-04 Since a couple of years, the automotive industry substitutes Classical CAN by means of CAN FD, which is internationally standardized in ISO 11898-1:2015. In parallel, the CAN community develops the next generation of the CAN data link layer protocol:...

CiA 1311-1

Electronic description for CANopen FD devices

2020-11-24 The nonprofit CiA (CAN in Automation) association has released the CiA 1311-1 specification. The document provides the XML schema definition for CANopen FD profiles.

CANopen FD

CAN FD hardware and CiA 1301 stacks

2020-10-28 The first interface modules and I/O devices able to run CiA 1301 compliant protocol stacks have arrived. They will be conformance-tested by CiA, soon.

Protecting the planet

World Standards Day 2020

2020-09-30 Protecting the planet with standards is the slogan of the World Standards Day 2020 which takes place on October 14. CAN in Automation (CiA) is committed to support international standardization.

Specifications

CANopen encoder and inclinometer profiles on J1939

2020-08-17 CAN in Automation (CiA), the nonprofit international association, has released the CiA 406-J and CiA 410-J specifications. They describe the adaptation of the CANopen encoder and inclinometer profiles for J1939-based networks.

SAE J1939

Updated specifications

2020-07-23 SAE has released new versions of the J1939DA, J1939/5, and J1939/73. These documents are part of the J1939 series specifying a CAN-based application profile for commercial vehicles and other applications.

Terminology

Harmonized transceiver naming

2020-07-16 CiA has agreed on names for two transceiver approaches: CAN SIC transceiver and CAN SIC XL transceiver. Recommended are the terms CAN high-speed and CAN FD transceivers for two other technologies.

Special Interest Group

CAN FD light – LED devices for passenger cars

2020-07-08 CAN in Automation (CiA) has established a special interest group to develop a “handler/dog” data link layer protocol based on CAN FD. It is intended for use in sensor/actuator networks such as automotive lighting systems.

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Node-ID assignment using LSS

2020-06-24 Since several years the technical interest group developing the CiA 305 specification at CiA discusses which CANopen layer setting services (LSS) should be adapted to CANopen FD. This article summarizes the current work status.

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CRC error detection for CAN XL

2020-06-23 CRC generator polynomials for detection of transmission errors in headers and frames of the upcoming CAN XL standard are proposed. Properties, which are chosen to provide error detection performance in the CAN XL scenario, are described.

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CAN XL error detection capabilities

2020-06-22 With its higher data-rates and payload sizes, CAN XL is the next step in the evolution of CAN. Besides this, CAN XL also provides improved error detection capabilities.

Data link layer

CAN XL and CAN FD light

2020-05-28 CAN in Automation (CiA) members are developing the third generation of the CAN data link layer protocol – also know as CAN XL. Additionally, CAN FD light, a master/slave protocol, is under consideration.

CiA specifications

CiA 309 series extended

2020-05-04 CiA has updated Part 1 and Part 3 of its CiA 309 series of CANopen remote access specifications. New is Part 5 specifying HTTP Restful and Websocket protocols to manage TCP/CANopen gateways and to control CANopen networks remotely...

Conformance testing

CiA 312-7 test specification

2020-05-04 The CiA 312‑7 conformance test specification describes test cases for CiA 454 CANopen devices. These devices are suitable for light electric vehicles.

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