In February, CiA provides a CAN seminar and a CANopen seminar for beginners. The 4-hour events introduce into CAN lower layers respectively CANopen higher-layer protocols. Registration for these charged trainings is open.
CAN physical layer webinar
The one-hour webinar on February 15 gives an overview about CAN physical layer options. The free-of-charge webinar describes the functionality and the scalability of CAN communication regarding bandwidth, topology, etc.
CiA 319 updated
End of 2022, CiA has released the CiA 319 document as draft specification proposal (DSP). It specifies the configuration of safety-related devices implementing CANopen Safety (EN 50325-5). The access is limited to CiA members.
CiA 443 updated
CiA has released the version 4.0.0 of the CiA 443 CANopen profile for SIIS level-2 devices. Now, the document specifies also battery management functionality. The bootloader handling has been clarified, too.
New ISO 11783-7 edition
The ISO 11783-7 implement message application layer standard has been updated. The 4th edition has been technically revised. Now, it incorporates all amendments and provides some requirement clarifications.
Electronica 2022 exhibition
In 14 halls, the international electronics industry met again in person from November 15 to November 18 in Munich. 2144 exhibitors and about 70 000 visitors saw some announcements regarding CAN technology. This included new MCUs (micro-controller unit), board-level products, and more. The CAN Newsletter published several articles regarding this.
Status on CANopen FD
CiA uploaded the webinar regarding the status of CANopen FD on its Youtube channel. Watch here.
CiA home game: SPS 2022
CAN in Automation has successfully participated at the SPS exhibition, hosted in its home-town Nuremberg from November 08 to 10, 2022. About 70 product panels from 31 CiA member companies have attracted visitors to the CiA stand. The CAN Newsletter also published several articles on products and developments found regarding CAN.
November issue of the CAN Info Mail
The new CAN Info Mail (CIM) is online. Members and non-members can subscribe to this monthly CiA email service.
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.