New Linux CAN card drivers for PISO-CAN/PCM Series
 
In recent years, CAN-based applications have demonstrated high degree of security and stability. More and more researches and developments of CAN-based devices have been published from the automotive and industrial domains. However, various programming methods which are due to the different hardware interface cause users getting problems on building or transplanting their applications. Therefore, the automobile industry pioneer puts forward the concept of the SocketCAN. The SocketCAN provides four kinds of interface. They are RAW, BCM, GW, and ISOTP. Each interface has its own functionalities. The following picture shows the software architecture.
 
The SocketCAN is based on the Linux operating system, and it contains the implementation interface of the network stack and the hardware driver. The hardware manufacturers program the hardware driver for the SocketCAN, and the network stack provides the standard BSD Socket APIs for users. Therefore, from the users¡¦ point of view, they can easily and quickly program their applications without being familiar with the various APIs of the different hardware interface through the SocketCAN network stack.

We have provided the SocketCAN drivers for several kinds of CAN interface cards. Users can implement their SocketCAN-based application on the Linux platform by using these cards. Besides, we also support static library of CANopen/DeviceNet master on x86 hardware platform. It can help users communicate with CANopen/DeviceNet slaves more easily.
 
Features:
  • Support Linux kernel version 2.6.31~2.6.34 (x86 hardware platform only).
  • Provide CANopen/DeviceNet master static library.
  • Standard interface for SocketCAN package. Users can use extended BSD socket APIs, you can program the CAN application as building a socket program.
  • Support Virtual CAN interface. Users can map several virtual CAN port into one physical CAN port. Each virtual CAN port has its own socket. Through these sockets, users can build the multi-thread application more easily.
  • Provide the RAW socket, CANopen master and DeviceNet master demos.
  • Good price-performance for economical applications.
 
Note:
Hardware platform: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6320 @ 1.86GHz, DDR2 667MHz 1.5GB
Software platform: Kernel-2.6.32, Distro- Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
 
Support Product List:
  • PCM-CAN100-D, PCM-CAN200-D
  • PISO-CAN200-D/T, PISO-CAN400-D/T
  • PISO-CAN200U-D/T, PISO-CAN400U-D/T
  • PEX-CAN200i-D/T
 
For more information about these products, please refer to the following website:
http://www.icpdas.com/products/Remote_IO/can_bus/pcm-can200.htm
http://www.icpdas.com/products/Remote_IO/can_bus/piso-can200.htm
http://www.icpdas.com/products/Remote_IO/can_bus/piso-can200e.htm
http://www.icpdas.com/products/Remote_IO/can_bus/piso-can400.htm

About how to download the SocketCAN driver, please refer to the following website:
http://ftp.icpdas.com.tw/pub/cd/fieldbus_cd/can/pci/piso-can200_400/linux_can_driver/socketcan/
 
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