CiA is going to harmonize its specifications. This includes unique formats for parameters, protocols, and services. This should improve readability and understandability. Interested parties may contact secretary(at)can-cia.org.
CiA community still grows
As usual, in the beginning of a year companies quit their CiA membership. In the following months, new members join. The first half of this year, 52 companies have applied for CiA membership. The complete list is here.
July issue of CAN Info Mail
The CAN Info Mail, a monthly email service of CiA, contains valuable information about upcoming events and CAN-related news. Here is the online version.
CAN FD technology days
CiA organizes the CAN FD technology days in Czech Republic, US and Italy. The events aim to bring the latest trends and development in the CAN FD technology and the practical experience.
Successful start in Shanghai
CiA has organized a CAN FD roadshow in China. The first stop was in Shanghai with about 80 engineers. 120 participated in Nanjing.
CiA Member News
The May issue of the email service provides brief information on the next CiA activities. This includes the possibility to participate as sub-exhibitor at CiA’s IAS-booth in Shanghai. For details write to headquarters(at)can-cia.org.
CiA seminars in Poland
Beginning of June, a CAN/CAN FD seminar and a CANopen seminar take place in Krakow (Poland). This is an excellent opportunity to get first-hand information on CAN technology. Detailed information is available here respectively here.
May issue of CAN Info Mail
The CAN Info Mail, a monthly email service of CiA, contains valuable information about upcoming events and CAN-related news. Here is the online version.
CiA roadshow in China
CiA as well as its members Guangzhou Zhiyuan, HMS, Hongke and Microchip are organizing a Chinese roadshow on CAN FD device and system design in May. The detailed schedule can be find here. You can register via email.
CiA Member News
The April issue mainly contains information about the 1st CiA CAN cyber security workshop. Employees of CiA member companies may subscribe to the monthly CiA Member News email service. You can register via email.
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.