Kvaser PCI104 User's Guide
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2.2 General Description
The Kvaser PCI104 board is an interface between the PCI bus of a PCI-104 system and the
CAN bus. Compact and self-stacking, it complies with the flexible PCI-104 specification. You
can with benefit use several Kvaser PCI104 boards on the same PCI-104 system.
The powerful M16C microcontroller from Renesas, with two built-in CAN controllers, provides
accurate time stamping and high data throughput of CAN messages. Kvaser PCI104 supports
11 bit (CAN 2.0A) as well as 29 bit (CAN 2.0B) identifiers. Remote frames can be transmitted
and received without restrictions. Kvaser PCI104 can detect and generate error frames on the
CAN bus. Kvaser PCI104 offers two completely independent CAN channels with separate
connectors. The CAN bus transceivers are integrated into the device.
Kvaser offers excellent software support. All Kvaser products utilize the common and user
friendly Application Programming Interface, Kvaser CANlib API. It enables you to run any
applications using Kvaser CANlib API on any Kvaser products, without the need of editing the
code and recompile it. Example of supported PCI, PCI104, PC/104-Plus, USB and PCMCIA
interfaces:
Kvaser PCIcanx II
Kvaser PCIcanx
Kvaser PC104+
Kvaser PCI104
Kvaser PCIcan II
Kvaser PCIcan
Kvaser PCcan
Kvaser Leaf Professional / SemiPro / Light
Kvaser Memorator II
Kvaser Memorator
Kvaser LAPcan II
Kvaser LAPcan
2.3 PCI104 Features
PCI-104 compliant
Stack-through connector
Communicates with the PC through fast DPRAM
M16C CAN controller from Renesas
High performance on board microcontroller
On board message buffer
CAN 2.0 A and CAN 2.0 B (active)
Supports “Silent Mode”
Two completely independent CAN channels
ISO11898-2 compliant transceivers
DC/DC power supply to galvanically isolated bus drivers
– no need for extra external
power supply
High-speed isolator circuits between CAN circuits and CAN drivers
Supports bit rates from 20 kbit/s up to 1Mbit/s
Extended temperature range of -
40˚ - +85˚
Plug and play installation