CAN BUS Tutorial
CAN BUS
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CAN BUS (Controller Area Network) is a very deterministic BUS heavily used in the automotive industry. It is a half-duplex BUS, that operates using a pair of differential signals. Typically, the speed standards are 100K, 250K, 500K or 1Mbit.
CAN BUS Frame
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Transceiver
Unlike other BUSes that can be up and running without any external hardware, CAN BUS REQUIRES a voltage transceiver that converts logical Rx/Tx pins into a single differential pair wire that is hooked up on the CAN BUS.
OBDII
OBDII standard uses CAN BUS to communicate to the ECU. You can connect a CAN controller to an OBDII port easily by using an OBDII to Serial cable. Since this kind of cable doesn't convert the CAN voltage signals to logical signals that a microcontroller can understand, you would also need an MCP2561 based transceiver which would allow your controller to be interfaced to an OBDII port.
Resources
External Resources
- LPC2000 CAN BUS Appnote
- Keil CAN BUS Primer
- Microchip CAN BUS Appnote
