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Fanless Embedded Intel Core & Celeron System with CAN Bus and CANopen Option

The eBOX700-891‑FL from Axiomtek is a fanless embedded system with numerous expansion options. It reserves space for additional CAN Bus or CANopen modules.The embedded system supports dual DDR4-2133 SO-DIMM slots with up to 32 GiB system memory, and it is suited for vision inspection (USB/PoE), motion control, security surveillance, and industrial automation. The box PC is powered [...]

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CAN Bus To Ethernet TCP/IP Gateway Also Supports Bridge Mode

The EtherCAN/2 by esd electronics is a hat-rail mounted gateway that exchanges data between CAN Bus and Ethernet networks. In bridge mode, two EtherCAN/2 modules can be used to connect two CAN Bus networks via TCP/IP.The unit comes with one Ethernet interface (10/100 Mbit/s, RJ45) and one CAN Bus high speed (ISO 11898-2) compatible interface (20 kBit/s up [...]

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Android Based In-Vehicle Tablet With SAE J1939 And CANopen Support

CP Device (China) introduced their series of displays suitable for road and off-road vehicles, which also support the ISO 15765-2 CAN transport protocol. The Chinese manufacturer offers different screen sizes, 7-inch or 10.1-inch. The devices utilize 1.5-MHz quad-core processors. The Apollo 10 display features 2-GiB RAM and 16-GiB ROM extendable to 32 GiB. There are several communication options [...]

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CAN Bus USB Module With Two Isolated High-Speed CAN FD Interfaces

The CAN-USB/400-FD by esd electronics is a USB gateway module with two isolated CAN Fd ports compliant with ISO 11898-2. The module is powered by an ISO 16845:2004 certified esd Advanced CAN Core (esdACC) implemented in an Altera FPGA, and it is capable of managing of up to 100% CAN busload. The interface can transmit and receive [...]

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Raspberry Pi Based Controller With CAN Bus Interface Serves As IoT Gateway

Kontron (Germany) has released its series of KBox A-330-MX6 host controllers, which can also serve as IoT (Internet-of-Things) gateways. The KBox A-330-MX6 is based on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module CM3+ and can, therefore, use the software pool of the Raspberry Pi community. The host controller with IoT gateway functionality comes with an i.MX6 dual-core processor [...]

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CAN Bus Interfaces for PC And Industrial Computers Support SAE J1939, CANopen, ARINC 825

The CAN (Controller Area Network) Bus is a well-established standard in the fields of automotive and commercial vehicle industries, machine building industry, medical technology, and aerospace. esd electronics offers a wide range of hardware platforms and bus systems. Drivers with an identical API, BSPs and higher layer protocols like CANopen, SAE J1939 and ARINC 825 are available for Windows, [...]

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CANopen I/O Modules With CAN FD Capability

Microcontrol announced its μCAN.8.dio-Snap I/O module with CANopen FD support. For more than 20 years, Microcontrol - based in Troisdorf near Cologne/Germany - has specialized in producing CAN applications for demanding industries as, for instance, mechanical and automotive industries but also renewable energy and medical technology.  They provide solutions to transmit analog measurement signals to a Fieldbus interface [...]

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Battery Charger With SAE J1939 Interface Suitable For Electric Vehicles

The RC1000 24-V battery charger from Delta-Q is intended for use in residential and industrial electric applications as well as electric vehicles. The CAN Bus interface, supporting the CANopen and SAE J1939 higher-layer protocols, provides real-time charger data including charge status, charge history as well as error and fault logs for quicker troubleshooting. The charger is suitable for applications in [...]

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Guide To SAE J1939 - CAN Bus Higher Layer Protocols

The following is an excerpt from A Comprehensible Guide To J1939 by Wilfried Voss. Even though extremely effective in automobiles and small applications, CAN alone is not suitable for machine automation, since its communication between devices is limited to only 8 bytes per message. As a consequence, higher layer protocols such as CANopen for machine control, DeviceNet for factory automation and [...]

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Safe Wireless CAN Bus Bridge For Machine To Machine Communication Also Supports SAE J1939

The CAN-Sync wireless CAN Bus bridge from Humanistic Robotics (HRI) allows the user to transmit CAN data wirelessly over a transparent point-to-point bridge, without modifying the data. Higher-Layer Protocols such as SAE J1939 and CANopen are also supported.The product provides a wireless link between two CAN Bus interfaces with HRI’s Safetysense technology which is designed to guarantee that critical control [...]

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