CAN Newsletter

June 2013: Functional safety

• Functional safety
  
  • Safety first – The need for interoperability tests
  • VTT: Evaluating performance levels of machine control functions
  • Curtain up for CANopen stage drives
• Anniversary
  
  • 25 years Vector: "We were at the right time at the right place"
  • 15 years Ixxat: "Our major business is high-quality CAN hardware"
• Software
  
  •  Dr. Heikki Saha: Exception management in CANopen systems
  • Emtas:Energybus: an open specification for LEVs
• Engineering
  
  • Symtavision: Analyzing the performance of CAN networks
  • Texas Instruments: Using 3,3-V CAN transceiver