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August 2021

A word from the CiA Managing Director

Beginning of July, the first CAN XL plugfest took place. Bosch, Fraunhofer IPMS, Infineon, and Vector tested their first CAN XL IP cores.

The first test set-up was a bus-line topology with an overall length of 19 m. There were connected five nodes plus some tools – only listening. The bit-rate was increased from 1 Mbit/s to 10 Mbit/s using busloads up to 100 %. The tests were performed with and without error signaling. Furthermore, the attendees tested also a mixed transmission of data frames: Classical CAN, CAN FD, and CAN XL. An interesting test was the simultaneous transmission of CAN XL and CAN FD frames using different bit-rates in the dataphase. CAN XL frames were sent with 10 Mbit/s and CAN FD frames with 2 Mbit/s. In all these basic tests, no problems occurred.

NXP demonstrated during the plugfest its double-star topology test network with eight CAN XL nodes running at 10 Mbit/s. Using one star with four NXP nodes and connecting two nodes from Fraunhofer IPMS as well as one node from Infineon, the achieved bit-rate was also 10 Mbit/s. In this test set-up, one stub was about 6 m, the others between 1 m and 2 m. In another test, the NXP single-star was linked to two Fraunhofer IPMS nodes running at 20 Mbit/s. Of course, all these tests were made under laboratory conditions (room temperature).

From my point-of-view, this was a very successful CAN XL plugfest. The next step is to test the behavior of the nodes, when there are transmitted corrupted frames on the CAN XL network. We will do this in the next plugfest.

The CiA 610-1 CAN XL data link layer and physical coding sub-layer specification is in the CiA internal quality check and will be available for members as Draft Specification Proposal, soon. After one year, it will be reviewed again and then released as Draft Specification, which can be purchased also by non-members. In parallel, the CAN XL specification will be submitted to ISO for international standardization. It is intended to update the current ISO 11898-1:2015 standard and to add the CAN XL protocol.

 

High-available CAN communication

The CiA Technical Committee has decided to inaugurate a new group with the scope to specify high-available CAN networks. This includes bus-line redundancy, node redundancy, etc. CiA office is going to organize a free-of-charge workshop, open also for non-members to collect requirements and to discuss specification options. If interested, please contact CiA office by email.

DIN 4630: body builder network for commercial vehicles

This German standard proposal in English language has successfully passed the draft ballot and is now prepared for the final voting. It specifies a CAN-based network for commercial vehicles (trucks and trailers) connecting add-on devices called body application units (BAU). They can communicate via J1939 or CANopen to the in-vehicle gateway unit (IGU), the telematics gateway unit (TGU), and to the fleet management unit (FMU). There are standardized different kinds of BAUs including those controlling tail-lifts, vehicle-mounted cranes, heating and cooling equipment, etc. DIN 4630 is also the base for the DIN 14704 standard, which specifies the IGU for fire fighting trucks. CiA is going to held a 1-hour webinar in October.

Call for experts: Review of CiA 456

The CiA 456 specifies a CANopen interface profile for configurable network components such as Classical CAN bridges and Classical CAN switches. This document should be extended to support also the configuration of CAN FD and CAN XL ports. Companies offering bridges/switches, routers, or gateways with CAN FD and/or CAN XL ports should contact CiA office by email to be invited to an inaugural meeting of the interest group (IG) profile’s task force (TF) configurable network components.

June issue of CAN Newsletter magazine

The June 2021 magazine is one of the most downloaded issues containing an article about comparison of power consumption of Classical CAN, CAN FD, and 100-Mbit/s Ethernet nodes.

The articles can be downloaded individually or you can download the entire magazine.

CAN Newsletter Online

Supplier interviews: CAN prospects for mobile machines. Sensor Technik Wiedemann (STW), ifm, and Palfinger answered five questions about the status quo and future use of CAN in the conservative field of mobile machine applications.

Online seminars

  • 2021-09-14 (16:00-20:00 UTC+2): CAN1
  • 2021-09-15 (16:00-20:00 UTC+2): CANopen1

The time schedule of these seminars in English language is optimized for North American participants.

CiA Webinars

CiA technology days

1 in English language
2 in Russian language
3 in Chinese language

Videos of the 17th international CAN Conference (iCC)

CiA offers the opportunity to get access to the video-recorded presentations of the 17th iCC. Get the link to all iCC videos, including the CiA webinars, presentation slides, and iCC proceedings: 200,00 € (without German VAT) for non-members and 150,00 € (without German VAT) for members. If you are interested, please contact CiA office by email.

  • Watch here the preview videos of the iCC papers.
  • Watch here the preview videos of the iCC webinars.

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