External Links

CAN Standards

ISO 11898-1:2003
Road vehicles -- Controller area network (CAN) -- Part 1: Data link layer and physical signalling
Korrekturdokument: Cor 1:2006

ISO 11898-2:2003
Road vehicles -- Controller area network (CAN) -- Part 2: High-speed medium access unit

ISO 11898-3:2006
Road vehicles -- Controller area network (CAN) -- Part 3: Low-speed, fault-tolerant, medium-dependent interface

ISO 11898-4:2004
Road vehicles -- Controller area network (CAN) -- Part 4: Time-triggered communication

ISO 11898-5:2007
Road vehicles -- Controller area network (CAN) -- Part 5: High-speed medium access unit with low-power mode

CiA specifications
Specifications of CiA, e.g. EDS for CANopen, Device Profiles, CANopen Protocol, CAN v2.0, v1.1, Power management and communication profiles

Partners

Our SafetyBUS p Products
We are taking part in Safety Network International e.V and offer some products with the SafetyBUS p sign, which can cope with enhanced security issues.

CANopen partner: Port
Port is a partner company integrating CANopen with our products. They offer their CANopen software packages with our Ethernet to CAN Gateway EtherCAN, resell the USB to CAN Converter CPC-USB, the PCI and PCI Express (PCIe) interface cards while providing the Open source driver can4linux for these interfaces and resell also our CANwatch for analysis of CAN bus errors and tests on the physical layer.

Informations on CAN

CAN in Automation
CiA is arised of the collaboration of different companies having the aim to create a non profit organisation providing technical, product specific and marketing-relevant informations to enhance the publicity for the fieldbus CAN and to set a foundation stone for future developments.

CAN product guide
A huge overview of companies offering products for the fieldbus CAN
Search abilities are split by product categories, company names or product names.

Developer of CAN: Bosch
Bosch developed the fieldbus CAN in 1983 to interconnect vehicle control systems. 1987 the bus system was introduced to public domain together with Intel. Main focus has been to reduce the overall cabling length and hence also reduce the weight.

Controller Area Network at wikipedia
The entry on CAN at the free online encyclopedia wikipedia offers a huge amount of useful information on different topics like functioning of CAN, the protocol, usage areas and much more. The entries on the list of higher layer protocols and the external links are also interesting.

CANbus mailing list
A mailing list of Vector for discussions on CAN. It is also availible from different newsgroup providers, e.g. gmane: gmane.comp.hardware.bus.can

Wiki with extensive informations to CAN
Port is serving this Wiki with extensive informations to CAN, usable controllers, products, higher level protocols and also external links.