AP29000
Connecting C166 and C500 Microcontroller to CAN
Introduction
Application Note
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V 1.0, 2004-02
Several different serial bus systems have been developed for the use in motor
vehicles, each of them trying, as far as possible, to fulfill the above requirements.
Examples are ABUS from Volkswagen, VAN (Vehicle Area Network) developed by
Peugeot and Renault, the J1850 protocol from Chrysler, General Motors and Ford and,
of course, the Controller Area Network (CAN) from Robert Bosch GmbH in Germany.
These protocols mostly differ in transfer rate, signal coding, message format, error
detection, and error handling.
The CAN protocol was defined by Bosch in the mid-eighties. For some time Infineon
have also offered CAN devices such as the stand-alone Full-CAN controller
SAE 81C90/91 and the C167CR and the C515C microcontrollers (high-end 16-bit or 8-
bit microcontrollers respectively with an on-chip CAN module).
CAN has now clearly established a market leading position and indeed a number of
vehicle manufacturers have abandoned their proprietry protocols and have chosen the
CAN protocol. More than 15 Million CAN nodes are in use worldwide.