The USB-CAN is an adapter from USB to
CAN. It connects a PC via the USB interface to the CAN bus. Since current
computers all have several USB ports, the installation is simple. Even the
previous standard of USB 1.1 with 12 Mbits/s max. speed is sufficient to connect
the USB-CAN to a computer.
CAN bus is widely used in industrial applications as well as in automotive
monitoring and control. The USB-CAN can be used to monitor the data traffic in
such installations, as well as sending control information. The performance of
USB-CAN is among the best available in the market of CAN-on-USB products.
Since hardware-based automatic flow control is implemented at the interface
between the CAN controller and the PC, the data reliability is very high.
The ASCII conversion protocol is useful in developing and testing any
configuration. Users just open the serial port via a Terminal Program, and have
a simple way to talk to the CAN controller. The same way they can also transmit
and receive CAN frames.
Applications programmed by users load the library (DLL), which transparently
handles the ASCII conversion. Programmers handle only the CAN frames and status,
they do not have to care about the ASCII conversion in their applications.
