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  • Introduction to the Controller Area Network (CAN)

    • SLOA101B August   2002  – May 2016 SN55HVD233-SEP , SN65HVDA1040A-Q1 , SN65HVDA1050A-Q1 , SN65HVDA540-5-Q1 , SN65HVDA540-Q1 , SN65HVDA541-5-Q1 , SN65HVDA541-Q1 , SN65HVDA542-5-Q1 , SN65HVDA542-Q1

       

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  • Introduction to the Controller Area Network (CAN)
  1.   Introduction to the Controller Area Network (CAN)
    1.     Trademarks
    2. 1 Introduction
    3. 2 The CAN Standard
    4. 3 Standard CAN or Extended CAN
      1. 3.1 The Bit Fields of Standard CAN and Extended CAN
        1. 3.1.1 Standard CAN
        2. 3.1.2 Extended CAN
    5. 4 A CAN Message
      1. 4.1 Arbitration
      2. 4.2 Message Types
        1. 4.2.1 The Data Frame
        2. 4.2.2 The Remote Frame
        3. 4.2.3 The Error Frame
        4. 4.2.4 The Overload Frame
      3. 4.3 A Valid Frame
      4. 4.4 Error Checking and Fault Confinement
    6. 5 The CAN Bus
      1. 5.1 CAN Transceiver Features
        1. 5.1.1  3.3-V Supply Voltage
        2. 5.1.2  ESD Protection
        3. 5.1.3  Common-Mode Voltage Operating Range
        4. 5.1.4  Common-Mode Noise Rejection
        5. 5.1.5  Controlled Driver Output Transition Times
        6. 5.1.6  Low-Current Bus Monitor, Standby and Sleep Modes
        7. 5.1.7  Bus Pin Short-Circuit Protection
        8. 5.1.8  Thermal Shutdown Protection
        9. 5.1.9  Bus Input Impedance
        10. 5.1.10 Glitch-Free Power Up and Power Down
        11. 5.1.11 Unpowered Node Protection
        12. 5.1.12 Reference Voltage
        13. 5.1.13 V-Split
        14. 5.1.14 Loopback
        15. 5.1.15 Autobaud Loopback
      2. 5.2 CAN Transceiver Selection Guide
    7. 6 Conclusion
    8. 7 Additional Reading
  2.   Revision History
  3. IMPORTANT NOTICE
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APPLICATION NOTE

Introduction to the Controller Area Network (CAN)

Introduction to the Controller Area Network (CAN)

A controller area network (CAN) is ideally suited to the many high-level industrial protocols embracing CAN and ISO-11898:2003 as their physical layer. Its cost, performance, and upgradeability provide for tremendous flexibility in system design. This application report presents an introduction to the CAN fundamentals, operating principles, and the implementation of a basic CAN bus with TI's CAN transceivers and DSPs. The electrical layer requirements of a CAN bus are discussed along with the importance of the different features of a TI CAN transceiver.

Trademarks

CANopen is a trademark of CAN in Automation.

DeviceNet is a trademark of Open DeviceNet Vendor Association, Inc.

1 Introduction

The CAN bus was developed by BOSCH (1) as a multi-master, message broadcast system that specifies a maximum signaling rate of 1 megabit per second (bps). Unlike a traditional network such as USB or Ethernet, CAN does not send large blocks of data point-to-point from node A to node B under the supervision of a central bus master. In a CAN network, many short messages like temperature or RPM are broadcast to the entire network, which provides for data consistency in every node of the system.

1. Robert Bosch GmbH, www.bosch.com

Once CAN basics such as message format, message identifiers, and bit-wise arbitration -- a major benefit of the CAN signaling scheme are explained, a CAN bus implementation is examined, typical waveforms presented, and transceiver features examined.

 
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