Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:19:58 +0100 From: "Andy" <andy@tecc.co.uk> To: "Brandon Fosdick" <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>, "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: <LJEBJMCCDIIIOBAJDEKCGECGCGAA.andy@tecc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3BA7ADB9.769A7BB@glue.umd.edu>
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I designed a CAN controller for an embedded app some years ago now. However, I seem to remember the serial bit rate was pretty slow. Here's a link to more info if anyone's interested: http://www.can-ucan.com/ Regards Ak > Subject: Re: CAN bus > > 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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