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This CAN Bus breakout board is the perfect solution to adding a full Controller Area Network (CAN) Bus interface to embedded systems such as the Arduino Due or mbed LPC1768. The board uses Microchip's MCP2551 High-Speed CAN Transceiver IC. The output pins are on both the screw terminal and DB9 connector. The DB9 can be configured for use with an OBD-II cable or standard CAN pin-out via solder bridges.

While many popular embedded systems (e.g., mbed LPC1768, Arduino Due, Teensy 3.x, and more) provide their respective CAN Bus interfaces, these CAN Bus capabilities are per default useless without their respective CAN Bus transceivers. A CAN Bus transceiver is a line driver that converts the controller’s TTL signal to the actual CAN level, which is a differential voltage. The use of differential voltage contributes to the vast reliability of the CAN Bus. Out of cost constraints, boards like the Arduino Due and the mbed LPC1768 have no onboard CAN Bus transceivers. CAN Bus transceivers would add more costs to the board and why pay for it when you don't need it? CAN Bus transceivers, due to power management requirements, always come as a separate chip.

Features

MCP2551 CAN Transceiver
5 VDC supply
Supports 1 Mbit/s operation
Implements ISO-11898 standard physical layer requirements
Up to 112 nodes can be connected
DB9 and screw terminal connection
DB9 can be configure for OBD-II cable or standard CAN pin-out
120 Ohm terminating resistor via jumper

Documents

The board requires a pin header which is not included.

Solder Bridge Configuration

Connecting to an mbed LPC 1768

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