CAN cards are modularly expandable with four interfaces

3rd November 2014

Siobhan O'Gorman

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CAN cards designed for the PCI bus, which are modularly expandable with up to four CAN interfaces and offered with driver and tool suite support, have been released by HMS. The CAN-IB300/PCI and CAN-IB400/PCI expand the company’s IXXAT CAN-IB series, which is suitable for both industrial and automotive applications.

For control applications, as well as analysis, configuration and troubleshooting, the series allows users to connect a computer to a CAN-system.

The CAN-IB interfaces feature a modular design and support up to four high-speed CAN channels along with the low-speed CAN standard. The interfaces are offered with up to four LIN or K-Line interfaces. On request, the devices can be provided with customer-specific interfaces.

Available in the standard and low-profile format, the CAN-IB300/PCI and CAN-IB400/PCI can be supplied with galvanic decoupling.

The CAN-IB300/PCI is a cost-effective passive card, while the CAN-IB400/PCI is an active card with a 32-bit MCU system. This enables intelligent handling and active filtering of the messages to be sent and received on the card, making it suitable for applications with high demands on data pre-processing.

The cards are supported by the IXXAT Windows driver packages (VCI) and the real-time driver packages (ECI for Linux, RTX, Intime, QNX, VxWorks). The IXXAT APIs for CANopen and SAE J1939 also support the interfaces. HMS offers a Windows-based analytical tool with the IXXAT canAnalyser, for the analysis of CAN and CAN-FD networks.