Copperhill Media offers a variety of literature on the Controller Area Network (CAN), CANopen and SAE J1939 Protocol Standards. All books are available as paperback, but can also be downloaded in eBook (PDF) form.
The MilCAN standard has been defined by a group of interested companies and government bodies associated with the specification, manufacture and test of military vehicles. MilCAN is primarily used in British Army vehicles, such as the TITAN©, TROJAN©, and TERRIER©, as part of the UK Ministry of Defence’s Future Rapid Effect System (FRES) initiative.
A feature of the CAN protocol is that the bit rate, bit sample point and number of samples in a bit period are user programmable. This gives the user the freedom to optimize the performance of the network for his given application.
The Controller Area Network (CAN) is a serial communication protocol designed for providing reliable high−speed data transmission in harsh environments. CAN system designers are being challenged to meet stringentElectromagnetic Interference (EMI) and Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) standards and increase reliability, whilereducing the size and cost of their products.
SAE J1939 has become the accepted industry standard and the vehicle network technology of choice for off-highway machines in applications such as construction, material handling, and forestry machines. J1939 is a higher-layer protocol based on Controller Area Network (CAN). It provides serial data communications between microprocessor systems (also called Electronic Control Units – ECU) in any kind of heavy duty vehicles. The messages exchanged between these units can be data such as vehicle road speed, torque control message from the transmission to the engine, oil temperature, and many more.
Controller Area Network (CAN) is a serial network technology that was originally designed for the automotive industry, especially for European cars, but has also become a popular bus in industrial automation as well as other applications. The CAN bus is primarily used in embedded systems, and as its name implies, is a network technology that provides fast communication among microcontrollers up to real-time requirements, eliminating the need for the much more expensive and complex technology of a Dual-Ported RAM.
