Re: Source code for CAN Implementations

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:45:57 GMT dathome wrote:
"raj" <maddukuri.rajesh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1184104563.300014.48500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dear All

I Kindly request the Source code links for CAN Implementation as I am
very curious about insights.

Unfortunately I am not aware of any CAN implementation that are open source
or in the public domain.

In my former job we have been using CAN on both an infineon C167/C164 and on
a PPC5200. On the former we wrote our own CAN and CANopen library, on the
latter we bought the Vector CAN/CANopen stack and had them adapt their CAN
driver for our hardware.

Hi Raj,

This depends on how much detail you need! I've written my own small drivers
for C164 and have also used drivers from Vector. The Vector ones are pretty
daunting to get started with and it's unlikely you'll be able to get hold of
them anyway unless you know someone ;-).

I doubt you would get them without dishing out some serious money! However,
despite being daunting, they are a fine piece of software, I was very much
impressed with them (both their performance and their source code). Also,
their people are competent and helpful.

However it might be worth checking out these company sites and you may be
able to get sample code, the Infineon site is probably a good bet as is
Microchip, but the Microchip CAN peripheral isn't as good.

Microchip
Hitex
Infineon -> Datasheets for the XC family are very good in the CAN
section.
Bosch
Keil
Tasking
Vector Informatik

Besides those, you might also want to check out http://www.can-cia.org/,
they have some documentation both on CAN and CANopen, thought some of it is
not available for free.

Cheers
/urs

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