Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:25:29 -0400 From: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> To: mark tinguely <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> Cc: imp@harmony.village.org, karsten@rohrbach.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk, julian@elischer.org Subject: Re: CAN bus Message-ID: <3BA7ADB9.769A7BB@glue.umd.edu> References: <200109181911.f8IJB1g45545@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
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mark tinguely wrote: > > > it is quite standard in industrial environments and still popular (at > > least in europe) but existant installations slowly get replaced with > > ethernet based (100baseFX) or industrial ethernet (10Mbit) transceivers. > > I believe it was designed for noisy environments and is still used in > automotive and large equipment (farm tractors, combines, etc). Thats why I chose it for my home automation project. There are a lot of places where I had to run the network wires right next to power wires. Since CAN is supposedly noise resistant and I don't need much bandwidth it seemed like a logical choice. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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