The September issue of the monthly CIM (CAN Info Mail) email service provides an overview of the CAN XL ecosystem. You can subscribe the CIM.
CiA profiles as Draft Specifications
The CiA 450, CiA 452, CiA 457 documents, and the CiA 459 series are now available also for non-members. They are part of the CiA 4XX one-year subsription comprising all CiA profiles in Draft Specification (DS) status.
SAE J1939DA updated
Beginning of August, SAE has released a new version of the J1939 Digital Annex (DA). Among others, this spreadsheet specifies suspect parameters (SP) and parameter groups (PG). It is updated quarterly.
New SAE J1939-73 edition
Recently, the updated SAE J1939-73 application profile document has been released. It specifies the SAE J1939 diagnostic messages (DMs). Additionally, it identifies the diagnostic connector to be used for the vehicle service tool interface.
New CIM edition is online
CiA has distributed the August issue of the CAN Info Mail is online. If you like to receive this CiA email service regularly, you can subscribe it.
Comments to CiA documents
CiA is committed to improve permanently its technical documents. Therefore, we would like to receive (technical and editorial) comments from the CAN community. They are observed and considered in the next technical group meeting (please, use our Word comment template file).
iCC proceedings online
The proceedings of the international CAN Conference (iCC) 2020 comprise 23 papers, which now can be downloaded free of charge.
CiA 1305 released
The CiA 1305 document specifies the layer setting services (LSS) for CANopen FD devices. These services can be used to inquire or to change the settings of the device's network/node-IDs, the bit timing, and the LSS address.
CiA 417 plugfest
The next CANopen Lift plugfest is scheduled on 2022-09-06 (9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. UTC+2). It takes place in Nuremberg. The registration deadline is 2022-07-22. For all details, contact CiA office.
New J1939DA version
SAE has released the May 2022 version of the J1939 Digital Annex (DA). Mainly, it specifies suspect parameters and parameter groups. It is updated quarterly.
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.
CiA community
The CAN community is huge. More than two billion of CAN nodes are installed annually. And this figure is still growing. The number of CAN fellows organized in the nonprofit CiA users’ and manufacturers’ group is much smaller. Due to new CAN data link layer (CAN XL and CAN FD Light) and new CAN physical medium attachment developments (CAN SIC and CAN SIC XL), the membership is growing, too. There are also new members interested in CiA profile developed for new markets such as battery management, fire-fighting equipment, etc.
“We take the already existing ideas in communication technology as well as in human communication, arrange them newly, and new specifications and recommendations are born,” said Holger Zeltwanger, CiA Managing Director.