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Automotive CAN protection

2022-03-09 In the harsh automotive environment, careful design and proper TVS (transient voltage suppression) diodes are crucial for safeguarding the communication networks and interfaces. Semtech's portfolio of TVS products protects CAN.

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Achieving correct ESD protection for CAN FD

2021-12-01 Connectivity, autonomous driving, and electrification are driving the evolution of automotive wiring harnesses. This results in a growing demand for high-speed data transmission and bandwidth required for ADAS. All of these must be protected from ESD...

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Migration to CAN FD

2021-12-01 In 2011 efforts were made to overcome the existing limits of the Classical CAN in terms of the maximum achievable bit rate – the idea of CAN FD was born. But is it actually worth migrating to CAN FD?

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The Janus attack

2021-11-30 The Janus attack is a low-level CAN protocol attack where a single CAN frame contains two different payload contents.

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Generic CAN (FD) security requirements

2021-11-30 This article gives an insight into the CAN (FD) security issue as asked by several companies participating within the CiA’s (CAN in Automation) interest group IG safety and security.

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CAN FD circuit board reference design

2021-09-22 Analog Devices (AD) provides printed circuit boards (PCB) and components for development of CAN FD based applications. This article shows details and evaluation of a CAN FD circuit board.

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Approach for node-ID negotiation in CANopen

2021-09-16 The increasing complexity and size of CANopen (FD) networks create new challenges on how to decide which node-ID should be used. This article discusses a theoretical approach how devices in a CANopen (FD) network could negotiate their node-ID by them...

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CANopen FD devices identification via LSS

2021-06-07 This article introduces the layer setting services (LSS) used to configure network-ID, node-ID, and bit-timing of devices in CANopen FD systems. The according specification is intended to be released in summer 2021.

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Migration from Classical CAN to CAN FD

2021-03-10 The evolution of Classical CAN to CAN FD and its standardization within ISO 11898-1:2015 has opened the way for CAN FD applications. Especially, raising the performance of entire machine units with as little effort as possible makes CAN FD an interes...

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CANopen object dictionary of an injector

2021-03-09 This article describes the functionality and the possible relationships of the CANopen objects specified for injectors in CiA 425-2.

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Data is the new oil

2020-12-08 Fleet managers expect error-free inspection, maintenance, and repair. For many businesses, an inspection and maintenance (I/M) process that meets the requirement “right at the first time” and serves the reduction of expensive downtime to ...

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IP concepts with CAN XL

2020-12-07 The authors take a look on IP concepts with CAN XL and the transformation of Some/IP towards Some/CAN. Additionally, this article sets out several options for implementing service-oriented communication with CAN XL.

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Implementing a CANopen injector FSA

2020-09-09 An injector compliant with the CiA 425-2 implements a CANopen NMT (network management) slave FSA (finite state automaton) and an injector FSA. The coupling possibilities of the both FSA are analyzed in this article.