The CiA 450, CiA 452, CiA 457 documents, and the CiA 459 series are now available also for non-members. They are part of the CiA 4XX one-year subsription comprising all CiA profiles in Draft Specification (DS) status.

Beginning of August, SAE has released a new version of the J1939 Digital Annex (DA). Among others, this spreadsheet specifies suspect parameters (SP) and parameter groups (PG). It is updated quarterly.

Recently, the updated SAE J1939-73 application profile document has been released. It specifies the SAE J1939 diagnostic messages (DMs). Additionally, it identifies the diagnostic connector to be used for the vehicle service tool interface.

CiA has distributed the August issue of the CAN Info Mail is online. If you like to receive this CiA email service regularly, you can subscribe it.

CiA is committed to improve permanently its technical documents. Therefore, we would like to receive (technical and editorial) comments from the CAN community. They are observed and considered in the next technical group meeting (please, use our Word comment template file).

The proceedings of the international CAN Conference (iCC) 2020 comprise 23 papers, which now can be downloaded free of charge.

The CiA 1305 document specifies the layer setting services (LSS) for CANopen FD devices. These services can be used to inquire or to change the settings of the device's network/node-IDs, the bit timing, and the LSS address.

The next CANopen Lift plugfest is scheduled on 2022-09-06 (9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. UTC+2). It takes place in Nuremberg. The registration deadline is 2022-07-22. For all details, contact CiA office.

SAE has released the May 2022 version of the J1939 Digital Annex (DA). Mainly, it specifies suspect parameters and parameter groups. It is updated quarterly.

Holger Zeltwanger and Reiner Zitzmann give a summary on CiA's 30^th anniversary event in the CiA webinar on July 07, 2022. It starts at 18:00 (UTC+2). Register here.