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Date:      Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:18:26 +0100
From:      "Andy" <andy@tecc.co.uk>
To:        "Brandon Fosdick" <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>, "mark tinguely" <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
Cc:        <imp@harmony.village.org>, <karsten@rohrbach.de>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk>, <julian@elischer.org>
Subject:   RE: CAN bus
Message-ID:  <LJEBJMCCDIIIOBAJDEKCEECGCGAA.andy@tecc.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <3BA7ADB9.769A7BB@glue.umd.edu>

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I designed a CAN controller for an embedded app some
years ago now. However, I seem to remember the serial
bit rate was pretty slow. Here's a link to more info
if anyone's interested:

http://www.can-ucan.com/

Regards
Ak

> Subject: Re: CAN bus
>
> mark tinguely wrote:
> >
> > >  it is quite standard in industrial environments and still popular (at
> > >  least in europe) but existant installations slowly get replaced with
> > >  ethernet based (100baseFX) or industrial ethernet (10Mbit)
> transceivers.
> >
> > I believe it was designed for noisy environments and is still used in
> > automotive and large equipment (farm tractors, combines, etc).
>
> Thats why I chose it for my home automation project. There are a
> lot of places
> where I had to run the network wires right next to power wires.
> Since CAN is
> supposedly noise resistant and I don't need much bandwidth it
> seemed like a
> logical choice.


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