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CAN FD To USB Gateway Project With Teensy 3.2 And Microchip MCP2517FD CAN FD Controller
Our Teensy 3.2 With CAN FD Breakout Board provides all the components needed to create your CAN FD to USB-Micro Gateway. The board comes with the Microchip MCP2517FD CAN FD controller, while the Teensy 3.2 provides the USB connection. It also has an onboard 5 VDC regulator and reverse-voltage protection. The MCP2517FD is a cost-effective and small-footprint CAN [...]
Low-Cost Do-It-Yourself CAN Bus To WiFi, Bluetooth, BLE, USB, RS485 Gateway Based On Raspberry Pi Zero
In the following, I will discuss a do-it-yourself project utilizing the Raspberry Pi Zero in combination with the CAN Bus Plus RS485 HAT. The combination of serial and wireless ports provided by this system allows the development of a great number of gateway applications. Overall, this small-size hardware includes connections such as CAN Bus, RS485, [...]
Industrial-Strength USB To RS232, RS485, TTL (UART) Isolated Converter
WaveShare introduced their industrial USB to RS232/485/TTL isolated converter with original FT232RL. It features embedded protection circuits such as power isolation, ADI magnetical isolation, and TVS diode, and more. Also, the USB TO RS232/485/TTL gateway comes with an aluminum alloy enclosure, making it robust and durable for industrial requirements.The USB TO RS232/485/TTL converter is very easy [...]
LIN Bus To USB Gateway Simulates LIN Master Or LIN Slave
The Baby-LIN-II device by Lipowsky Industrie-Elektronik is a small but powerful system to control a LIN Bus via USB. It simulates LIN Bus master or LIN Bus slave nodes. The electrically-isolated LIN interface bypasses problems in noisy electrical environments.The device also supports stand-alone operation without a PC. A durability test sequence can be defined as a macro and [...]
USB To Dual Isolated CAN Bus And SAE J1939 Module With SocketCAN Driver Support
Innodisk, a company based in Taiwan, introduced their EMUC-B202 module, designed for CAN Bus applications and Fleet Management tasks using SAE J1939.The product can be installed via mPCIe or USB pin header. It features ESD protection, and supports a temperature range from -40 °C to +85 °C plus galvanic isolation. A SocketCAN software driver is available.Product Features CANbus 2.0B [...]
Two-Channel CAN Bus To USB Gateway With Windows Data Monitor And C++, Delphi, LabView Software
The USBCAN-II Pro CAN Bus interface module by GCAN is equipped with SJA1000 CAN controllers and PCA82C251 transceivers. The two CAN Bus ports are galvanically isolated (1500 V), and the adapter is compliant with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1. It can be used as a debug or analysis tool with two CAN channels. The gateway also supports automatic CAN [...]
Low-Cost, High-Performance Vehicle Network Interface Family With 4 CAN Bus and CAN FD Ports
Intrepid Control Systems, Inc. has announced their ValueCAN4 family, which also provides optional Ethernet (DoIP) and LIN connectivity. The device supports up to 1 Mbit/s for CAN bus connectivity and up to 10 Mbit/s for CAN FD communication. The ISO 11898-2 standard specifies currently transceiver chip parameters for 5 Mbit/s. The dongle family complies with USB 2.0 [...]
How To Build A GPS To USB Interface, Including A Real-Time Clock, Within Minutes
Well, yes, it takes literally only minutes to assemble and test a GPS sensor plus real-time clock through the USB port on your computer, and that computer can be a Windows PC, Mac, any Linux system such as the Raspberry Pi, or even an Android system. All it takes is having the right components and [...]
Single-Port Inline USB Isolator For Industrial And Medical Applications
The SeaISO ISO-1 single-port, inline USB isolator by Sealevel Systems, Inc. offers an easy-to-use method of protecting host and field equipment from damaging transients and surges commonly found in commercial, industrial and medical environments. The ISO-1 is UL Recognized, in accordance with EN60601-1 3rd Edition, and protects both the data and power lines with 4 kV of [...]
RS232 to USB Converter With Arduino Due Or Mega 2560
Just about everyone who is involved with serial communication will have his/her RS232 to USB converter. Today's PCs don't even bother to support RS232. Consequently, a USB converter is mandatory to monitor RS232 data traffic. All this appears to render the following project obsolete. However, when it comes to a protocol converter, i.e. the conversion [...]