This series specifies the CANopen access from TCP-based networks (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 5). Recently, these documents have been moved unchanged from DSP to DS status, meaning that non-members can subscribe to them.
Workshop: Configurable network components
CAN in Automation (CiA) has scheduled a web-based workshop on May 24, 2022, 10:00 to 12:00 (UTC+2). On occasion of this workshop, CiA intends to discuss requirements of a modern configurable network component that is intended to interconnect several CAN, CAN FD, or CAN XL-based embedded networks. For registration please contact secretary(at)can-cia.org.
Draft DIN 14704 for comments
The German standardization body calls for comments on the draft standard for body gateways for fire-fighting vehicles. This standard is written in English language and it is based on DIN 4630.
CiA document updates
CiA has released new versions of some profile specifications. This includes CiA 442 (motor starters), CiA 444 series (spreader), CiA 445 (RFID devices), and CiA 453 (power supplies). All these documents are published as Draft Specifications, which non-members can subscribe. CiA members get them free of charge.
CiA 106 supersedes CiA 303-1
The CiA 106 technical report contains generic connector pin-assignment recommendations. In the past they were part of the CiA 303-1 document, which was related to CANopen only.
DIN 4630 released
The German standard published in English language specifies the CAN-based body builder network for commercial vehicles. It covers also the gateway to the in-vehicle networks. It is available from Beuth.
CANopen drive control webinar
On May 3, CiA offers a free-of-charge webinar in English language. For registration click here.
30 years CAN Newsletter
In June 1992, the first CAN Newsletter issue was released. In total, 120 issues have been published. There is still the opportunity to advertise in the 30th anniversary issue.
Motion to Draft Specification
The CiA Interest Group (IG) profiles is updating several CANopen profile specifications including the CiA 453 profile for programmable power supplies. They will be released soon as Draft Specifications (DS) and will be part of the CiA 4XX series subscription. For details, please contact CiA office.
CAN XL and CAN FD Light
CiA has released the CiA 610-1 and CiA 610-3 CAN XL related documents as Draft Specifications (DS). Now, non-members can access them, who have subscribed to the CiA 600 series. The same is valid for the CiA 604-1 (CAN FD Light) document.
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.
CiA community
The CAN community is huge. Close to two billion of CAN nodes are installed annually. And this is still growing. Compared with these figures, the number of CAN fellows organized in the nonprofit CiA users’ and manufacturers’ group is very small. Several have left the CiA community in the last years. Some of them are coming back due to the CAN FD development. And there are many things still to do.
We take the already existing ideas in communication technology as well as in human communication, arrange them newly, and new specifications and products are born.
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.