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AN Overview On CAN PROTOCOL: Highly Suitable For Automobile Industry, Why?

Controller Area Network or CAN protocol is a method adopted to improve the quality of automobiles in order to make them reliable, safe and fuel efficient. Rapid developments in technology leads to replacement of some mechanical components to robust electronic devices in automobile industries.

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AN Overview On CAN PROTOCOL: Highly Suitable For Automobile Industry, Why?

Controller Area Network or CAN protocol is a method adopted to improve the quality of automobiles in order to make them reliable, safe and fuel efficient. Rapid developments in technology leads to replacement of some mechanical components to robust electronic devices in automobile industries.

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AN Overview on CAN PROTOCOL

Controller Area Network or CAN protocol is a method adopted to improve the quality of
automobiles in order to make them reliable, safe and fuel efficient. Rapid developments in
technology leads to replacement of some mechanical components to robust electronic
devices in automobile industries. These electronic devices like engine management
systems, central locking systems, air bags, active suspensions etc needs communication
between them for better functioning. CAN Protocol can be said as a method of
communication between these electronic devices embedded in an automobile.

Highly Suitable for Automobile industry, why?

CAN protocol was an idea introduced by Robert Bosch in the year 1983. A Protocol is the
set of rules, so CAN Protocol can also be defined as the set of rules for transmitting and
receiving messages in a network of electronic devices. CAN Protocol is a message based
protocol . Communication between ECUs and various sensors like knock sensor, MAF, TPS,
Vehicle speed etc is made possible in an effective way using this CAN bus Architecture. It
doesn’t need a host computer. These nodes/ECUs(Electronic Control Units) will have
hardware and software embedded inside them. Also these nodes are connected by a common
serial bus to transmit and receive messages. Every node has the access to read and write date
on the CAN bus. That means this CAN protocol does not follow master-slave architecture.

Working

Considering a typical CAN network, it has various nodes that needs to communicate between
each other. Each node has a Host controller, a CAN Controller and a CAN receiver. Host
controller is responsible for the working of each node. A CAN frame carries meaningful
sequence of bit or byte data into the network. A node writes this well defined structure called
CAN frame into the network when it is ready to sent data. Before doing this, a node has to
check whether the bus is available or not. Packets of data that carries information can be
defined as Message. The information carried in every byte of a CAN message is defined in
the CAN Protocol. Generally, protocols are of two types,

1. Address based protocol


2. Message based protocol

Address based protocol : The data bytes of a CAN message( 10 bytes of data) has the
address of the destination which the message was intended.

Message based protocol : Here, the data packets has a predefined ID. This ID says the
priority it has over other messages. CAN protocol is a message based protocol where each
node decides whether the message received should be immediately discarded or keep
processed. Suppose, a safety system router node is connected to automotive airbag sensor
through CAN Network. This safety system router routes the data to all other nodes that deals
with the safety system network. When the nodes receives the air bag sensor information, it
will acknowledge if they receive the message properly. The dealings with the message will be
decided later.

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