The CAN and CANopen seminars scheduled for September and October are virtual meetings. The still increasing number of new Covid-19 infections delays the carrying out of face-to-face seminars.
CiA 418 and CiA 419
The CANopen profiles for batteries and chargers are under systematic review. Until October 1, CiA office collects comments and new function requests (secretary(at)can-cia.org).
Call for experts
CiA intends to develop a generic dual bus-line redundancy concept, which is independent of higher-layer protocols such as CANopen and J1939. Parties interested in participation or in more details contact (secretary(at)can-cia.org).
Harmonized transceiver naming
CiA has agreed on names for two transceiver approaches: CAN SIC transceiver and CAN SIC XL transceiver. Recommended are the terms CAN high-speed and CAN FD transceivers for two other technologies.
Board of directors re-elected
In its first online meeting, the CiA general assembly has re-elected the CiA board of directors (Uwe Koppe, Technical Director; Christian Schlegel, Business Director, and Holger Zeltwanger, Managing Director). The accepted budget for 2020 will be adjusted depending on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.
CiA BC and CiA TC
During the online CiA general assembly (GA), the members of the CiA business committee (BC) and the CiA technical committee (TC) have been re-elected. The GA also excluded some companies from the member list due to not paid fees for 2019.
CiA webinar on J1939-22
The 1-hour webinar on July 8 provides an overview on CANopen FD networks using the J1939-22 application layer.
Technology days on CANopen FD
CiA has scheduled two free of charge CANopen FD technology days on July 6 and July 9. The 4-hour online events give an introduction into the new CANopen application layer running on CAN FD networks.
CAN and CANopen online seminars
CiA has introduced the web-based CAN and CANopen seminars which help to increase attendees safety in times of the coronavirus. It provides in a compact format the contents of our well-known on-site seminars.
IAS participation
CiA has cancelled its participation in the IAS tradeshow in Shanghai, due to the uncertainties cause by the novel coronavirus. The sub-exhibitors of the CiA stand have already withdrawn their participation.
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 one 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.