On May 16, CiA’s free-of-charge webinar regarding CAN and cybersecurity takes place (16:00 to 17:00 UTC+2). Interested participants can still register for the 1-hour webinar (including 15 minutes of discussion, question, and answer).
Be part of the CAN Newsletter
For the June issue of the CAN Newsletter magazine, CiA is still looking for interesting articles regarding CAN. Maybe you have an extraordinary application report where a CAN product was used, or any other exciting topic regarding CAN? Send your technical article at pr(at)can-cia.org.
CAN Info Mail April
The European Parliament discusses a right-to-repair law. The right to repair is a rather vague concept that may mean different things. Read more in the current issue of the CAN Info Mail.
New CiA Board of Directors
The annual General Assembly has elected Magnus-Maria Hell (Infineon) as Technical Director and re-elected Christian Schlegel (CHS Consulting) as Business Director as well as Holger Zeltwanger as Managing Director.
New CiA Technical and Business Committee
Elected members of the Technical Committee are Bosch, Emotas, ESD, Microcontrol, and Vector. Emotas, ESD, HMS, Microcontrol, and Vector are the elected members of the Business Committee.
CAN XL: Proof of concept
The CAN Newsletter Online informs about a proof-of-concept research project by Daimler Truck. It is the first CAN XL network used in a road vehicle.
750th CiA member and CiA Member Day
The CiA welcomes its 750th member, Shanghai Tosun Technology from China. To connect with other members, CiA organizes the CiA Member Day on March 28. 2023 face-to-face in Nuremberg. More details you will find here.
ISO 11992-2:2023 released
Recently, the reviewed and updated ISO 11992-2 standard has been published. It specifies the not brake and not running-gear related suspect parameters and parameter groups for the CAN-based network between towing and towed heavy-duty road vehicles.
CAN Info Mail March
CAN is an important embedded communication technology in heat pumps. Some heat pumps use CANopen as higher-layer protocol. Therefore, it makes sense to provide a standardized CANopen diagnostic interface. Read more in the current issue of the CIM.
Presentations at Embedded World
On March 14, there is a session (Session 2.3, 16:00 UTC+1) on CAN technology with CiA's experts at the Embedded World conference. There are presentations on 'Scalability of CAN Physical Layers', 'CAN XL as Backbone Network in Commercial Vehicles', and 'Next Generation Networking in Agriculture and Off-road Vehicles'. There is also a discussion forum at the end.
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.