CAN Newsletter

September 2013: Mobile machines

• Coverstory
  
  • Hand-held CANopen diagnostic tool
    The CANopen-Diag hand-held diagnostic tool by Embedded Systems Academy is based on the PCAN-Diag hardware by Peak-System Technik. It complies with the CiA 301 (version 4.2) application layer specification. In addition, it supports the CiA 305 Layer Setting Service (LSS) specification (version 2.2). The add-on software module for the CiA 447 car add-on devices application profile complies with the version 2.0.synchronous and asynchronous motors.
• Editorial
  
  • Cross-media, multi-media, and social-media – we are in the middle of the jungle
• CANopen
  
  • Sitael: Implementing CANopen in hardware
  • TKE: SI-Unit and scaling management in CANopen
  • MSF Vathauer: Working towards Industry 4.0 with CANopen
• Mobile machines
  
  • Goldhofer: Goldhofer axles shoulder the USS Coronado
  • Moba: More than devices for road construction machines
  • STW: Separating non-safety and safety software functions in ECUs
  • Wachendorff: Kindling with a plan