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agement. Today, it is also used in many other systems, for example, in industrial
machines, aerospace, subsea, merchant marine.
● The CAN Protocol ................................................................................................. 280
● CAN Configuration ................................................................................................ 281
● CAN Trigger .......................................................................................................... 283
● CAN Decode Results ............................................................................................ 287
● Search on Decoded CAN Data ............................................................................. 289
● CAN Label List ...................................................................................................... 291
12.5.1 The CAN Protocol
This chapter provides an overview of the protocol characteristics, frame types, informa-
tion transfer and message formats.
The CAN 2.0 specification defines two formats: the base CAN (version 2.0A) with an
11-bit identifier and the extended CAN (version 2.0B ) with a 29-bit identifier. Based on
theses specifications the CAN standard ISO 11898-1 was released, in 1993.
CAN characteristics
Main characteristics of CAN are:
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Differential signaling.
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Transmission over two wires, high and low.
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Multi-master, which means that any node can begin to transmit a message, when a
bus is free.
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Bitwise arbitration.
Arbitration
Information transfer is done by carrier sense multiple access/bitwise arbitration (CSMA/
BA). Each node waits for a certain inactive period before it tries to send a message.
Collisions are resolved through a bitwise arbitration that is non-destructive.
Each message has a priority which is implied in the identifer value - the lower the
value, the higher the priority. A dominant bit from the message with highest priority
overwrites the recessive bits on the bus. If a node detects that the bus is already
receiving a message that has a higher priority, it stops the transmission and waits for
the current transmission to end before retransmitting.
Frame types
The CAN protocol defines the following types of frames:
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Data: used for information transmission.
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Remote: used for information request. The destination node sends this frame to the
source to request data. This type of frame is only used by CAN.
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Error: indicates that a bus node has detected transmission error.
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Overload: used from a bus node to request a transmission delay.
CAN (Option R&S RTM-K3)
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