CiA has introduced the version 2.3 of the CiA 417 CANopen application profile series. For more details see the article in the CAN Newsletter Online.
New version of CiA 422 series
CiA has released the version 2.1 of the CANopen application profile for refuse collecting vehicles, also known as CleANopen. For more details see the article in the CAN Newsletter Online.
CANopen FD - The art of embedded networking
First CANopen FD devices were exhibited at the SPS IPC Drives 2018. CiA made some progress in CANopen FD specifications, which will continue next year. CiA has made a video explaining briefly the benefits of CANopen FD.
DIN 4630 – More than just the link to “clouds”
This CAN network approach specified in DIN 4630 covers also the control of commercial vehicle bodies. This includes applications such as cranes, tail-lifts, refrigerators, etc. For more information, please contact CiA office.
Next generation CAN data link layer
CiA will establish a new SIG specifying the next generation CAN data link layer as proposed by VW. This approach will provide payloads up to 4 KiB. The SIG will be inaugurated in December. For more information, please contact CiA office.
Re-organized Interest Groups
The CiA Technical Committee has established new Interest Groups (IG) and renamed some already existing groups. The IGs are described briefly here.
CiA 401 for CANopen FD
CiA office prepares a CiA 401 PDO mapping for CANopen FD. First members like to show at SPS IPC Drives prototype implementations. The document CiA 401-2 is intended to be released beginning of next year.
SAE J1939-22
SAE develops the J1939-22 document, which specifies an application layer for CAN FD. CiA has submitted its multi-PDU approach (CiA 602-2) to be integrated into the SAE document.
CANopen FD meeting
The CANopen SIG application layer has scheduled a two-day meeting (2018-10-22/23) to harmonize additional CANopen FD related specifications (EDS, test plan, and LSS). All members are invited to participate in this meeting.
CiA 447 updated
The CANopen specification for open networks in passenger cars has been improved. CiA 447-2 and CiA 447-3 version 2.1.3 introduces some new parameter for the virtual devices information signaler and switch keypad.
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.