On October 5 and October 6 CAN and CANopen seminars in German language are scheduled. The CAN seminar is held as an online event and the CANopen for newcomers takes place on site in Nuremberg.
IG high availability inaugurated
The new CiA interest group (IG) develops specifications and recommendations for different kinds of redundancy. The first approach is a data link layer and physical network redundancy. Chairperson is Uwe Koppe from Microcontrol. For more information contact CiA office.
CAN Info Mail
The September issue of the monthly email service is online. It reports mainly about future CiA meetings and CiA activities in the last quarter of this year.
Upcoming seminars in September
On September 14 and September 15 CAN and CANopen online seminars take place. The seminars focus on CAN principles, differences between Classical CAN and CAN FD, possibilities CAN communication offers, as well as basic CANopen principles as specified in CiA 301.
Chinese CANopen Lift webinar
CiA has scheduled a Chinese 1-hour webinar plus a 15-min question and answer session regarding CiA 417 on October 14, 2021. Register here.
CiA IG safety + security
This Interest Group calls for experts for the new work item “cyber security layer for CANopen/CANopen FD”. The first meeting is on September 6, 2021. Please register by email.
CiA IG high-availability
On August 30, CiA establishes a new Interest Group (IG). It purpose is the development of specifications regarding high-available CAN networks. This covers all OSI layers including bus-line redundancy. Please register by email.
CAN Info Mail
The August issue of the monthly email service is online. It reports about the first CAN XL plugfest, for example.
The international CAN Conference presentations and webinars have been recorded. When you have missed the conference, you can watch it after subscription. For details see here.
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. More than two billion of CAN nodes are installed annually. And this figure is still growing. The number of CAN fellows organized in the nonprofit CiA users’ and manufacturers’ group is much smaller. Due to new CAN data link layer (CAN XL and CAN FD Light) and new CAN physical medium attachment developments (CAN SIC and CAN SIC XL), the membership is growing, too. There are also new members interested in CiA profile developed for new markets such as battery management, fire-fighting equipment, etc.
“We take the already existing ideas in communication technology as well as in human communication, arrange them newly, and new specifications and recommendations are born,” said Holger Zeltwanger, CiA Managing Director.
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.