CAN Newsletter

March 2013: Automotive electronics

• Coverstory
  
  • First-hand information on CAN FD
    This issue contains some detailed articles about CAN FD implementations and technology information. Most of them are based on the presentations given at the CAN FD Tech Day in Detroit (October 2012). During the event, several companies presented their roadmaps for CAN FD products.
• Improved CAN
  
  • Eats: CAN – From its early days to CAN FD
  • Daimler: Safe-guarding CAN FD for applications in trucks
  • Inventor presented the improved CAN data link layer
  • STMicroelectronics: Higher flexibility in automotive networks through CAN FD
  • Etas: Automotive and industrial use cases for CAN FD
• Application
  
  • Biviator: Control panel solution for printing machines
  • Schildknecht: CAN data transmission via a radio link
  • Bosch Rexroth: CAN-based distributed control of a breakstone cleaner
  • Renesas: Solar vehicle uses CAN for internal communication
• CANopen
  
  • 3S: CANopen Safety with Codesys Safety for SIL 2
  • Dr. Heikki Saha: Experimental CANopen EEC management
  • Buxbaum Automation: PLC controls CANopen drives via gateway