Holger Zeltwanger and Reiner Zitzmann give a summary on CiA's 30th anniversary event in the CiA webinar on July 07, 2022. It starts at 18:00 (UTC+2). Register here.
Next CiA technology day
On July 6, the online CiA technology day provides an overview about current CiA specification developments. This includes CAN FD Light and CAN XL as well as CiA profiles and a generic CAN bootloader. Registration is open.
30 years CAN Newsletter
Another 30-years anniversary: The first CAN Newsletter was published in June 1992. The June issue 2022 features CAN applications in maritime and airborne electronics as well as an open-source CANopen protocol stack.
CiA 458 released as DS
The CANopen device profile for energy measurements has been updated editorially. It has been released as Draft Specification (DS) and is now part the CiA 4XX series subscription.
CiA BoD re-elected
On the annual CiA general assembly, Uwe Koppe has been confirmed as Technical Director as well as Christian Schlegel as Business Director. The third member of the Board of Directors (BoD) is Holger Zeltwanger (Managing Director) again.
Second CAN XL plugfest
Beginning of May, CiA organized the 2nd CAN XL plugfest. An article in CAN Newsletter Online provides some details about it. CiA members can request a more detailed report.
Don’t miss the party
The CiA anniversary event on June 1 to June 2 with technical presentations includes also the annual CiA General Assembly, in which the Board of Directors as well as the permanent members of the Business and the Technical Committees are elected.
CiA 309 series
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.
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.