CiA has scheduled a free-of-charge webinar on January 24, 2024. It introduces the generic CAN bootloader approach developed by CiA. Registration for the one-hour webinar is required.
Safety-related CAN communication
CiA’s Interest Group (IG) safety and security is going to establish a Special Interest Group (SIG) to review and update CANopen Safety (EN 50325-5) on January 30. Registration is open.
748 CiA members
CiA starts with 748 members into the new year. The CiA community is looking forward to new markets for all three CAN protocol generations: CAN CC (classic), CAN FD, and CAN XL.
CAN Community News (CCN)
CiA has merged the CMN (CiA Member News) and the CIM (CAN Info Mail) email services to the CCN email service. Subscribers receive it every three weeks.
The standard specifies the connection of CAN-based in-vehicle networks to the diagnostic link connector. The 2nd edition of this document has been technically revised. The network-address translation between OSI-layers has been improved, for example.
CANopen FD updated
CiA has released the version 1.1.0 of the CANopen FD application layer and communication profile specification (CiA 1301). The technically revised document specifies an improved bit-timing table and introduces an adjustable maximum available payload (data field length). USDO remote service are now mandatory.
SIG 3,3-V transceiver established
The Special Interest Group (SIG) specifies 3,3-V transceivers compliant with the parameter sets A and B in the next edition of the ISO 11898-2 standard. Additionally, it provides related conformance and interoperability test plans. An EMC specification is also planned. Next meeting is scheduled for mid of January.
Program of 18th iCC is online
The next international CAN Conference (iCC) takes place in Baden-Baden (Germany). The conference program is online. The two-days conference is scheduled for May 14 and 15, 2024.
Call for experts: Greenhouse automation
Greenhouse automation systems often use CAN-based embedded networks for different purposes. The Korean government took the initiative to propose an ISO new work item proposal to standardize such networks. CiA is supporting this initiative and calls for interested parties, suppliers as well as greenhouse manufacturers. For more details send an email to CiA office.
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.