CANopen FD stack supports stand-alone CAN FD controller

Emotas and DCD-Semi have announced that Emotas’ CANopen FD protocol stack supports DCD’s DCAN FD stand-alone CAN FD controller. Thus the CANopen FD stack can now also be used in FPGA systems with the DCAN FD IP core.

The CANopen FD stack is developed in ANSI-C and it is MISRA-C:2004 conform. The stack is delivered in source code and provides CANopen FD features defined in CiA 1301.

The DCAN FD is a stand-alone controller for CAN, used in automotive and industrial applications. It’s been designed in accordance to ISO 11898-1:2015 and conforms both to Bosch Classical CAN specification and CAN FD. Because in automotive, safety is the key issue, that’s why DCAN-FD provides error detection functions, which increase communication reliability and unique fault confinement, which guarantees network-wide data consistency, Emotas explained.

Because of its fundamental role in all aspects of security and safety, trustworthy implementations are crucial. According to the company, DCD-Semi’s IP core supports this. The improved protocol overcomes Classical CAN limits: data can be transmitted faster than 1 Mbit/s and the payload (data field) is up to 64 byte long and not limited to 8 byte anymore. When only one node is transmitting, the bit-rate can be increased, because no nodes need to be synchronized.

Of course, before the transmission of the ACK slot bit, the nodes need to be re-synchronized. The core has an CPU (central processing unit) interface (8/16/32-bit configurable data width), with small or big endian addressing scheme. Hardware message filtering and the receive FIFO enable back-to-back message reception, with minimum CPU load. The DCAN FD is provided as HDL source code, allowing target use in FPGA and ASIC technologies.

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