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November 8, 2004 - for immediate release:

 

cPCI-CAN - 4 Channel CAN Interface for CompactPCI Systems.

Pittsford, New York.   cPCI-CAN is a new CAN interface with up to 4 CAN bus channels for 6U CompactPCI systems, featuring Philips� SJA1000 widely-used CAN controller on each channel. Each CAN interface has a MC68332 microcontroller, providing powerful and safe communication on CAN networks. This relieves the host CPU from the stack protocol burden.  

cPCI-CAN boards feature up to 4 intelligent CAN channels, and have a 3.3V and 5V PCI interface.  Diagnostic front panel LEDs assist with status indication, and the boards come with ICANOS firmware, which supports Layer 2 CAN communication. Industry-standard CANopen capability is also available.  CAN connection is via the front panel or cPCI connector.

Connection for the 4 channels can also optionally be via a fibre optic connection (using CAN-OPTOkit), giving an isolated and noise-immune CAN link of up to 300m.

Standard operating system support is available for Windows, Linux and QNX (others on request).