As a long-term member of CAN in Automation (CiA), Kvaser will be exhibiting on the CiA stand (A5.339), along with other CAN industry members. If you would like to arrange a meeting in advance with us, please contact Silvia K

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Are you planning to visit Embedded World 2016 between 23 and 25^th February? Nuremberg’s embedded world trade fair unites everything for and about embedded systems under one roof, including our CAN interface modules and partner’s software!

Among the attendees are Kvaser Qualified Sales Representatives and Technical Associates:

emtas Gmbh | Embedded solutions for CANopen and EtherCAT systems.

Micromax | Embedded solutions for harsh environments.

REC – a GlobalLogic Company | Software engineering solutions from Poland, Slovakia and Croatia.

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Caltech Racing’s team is split into four subteams: Mechanical, Energetics, Operations and Support. Santiago Navonne, who’s studying for a degree in Electrical Engineering, is Energetics Division Lead. According to Navonne: “We spent our first term exploring the project, identifying requirements and laying out a complete design. For most of us, this is the first project of this magnitude and level of complexity, and as our team grew from 7 people to 70, we had to reorganize the team structure. The goal was to ensure that everybody had a thorough understanding of the component they were designing, but also how that fit into the vehicle as a whole.”

Acknowledging Caltech’s previous lack of participation, Navonne said: “Caltech is known for excelling at science and theoretical research, and while its name is known to engineers, the Institute’s interactions with industry have always been weaker. The decision to participate in this competition, while supported by Caltech faculty, was driven by students entirely.” So why now and why this competition, begs the question. “The answer is really a combination of finding the right people at the right time: a group of students with a passions for cars and engineering willing to undertake an incredibly ambitious challenge, at a time when electric vehicle research and design is finally making a strong appearance in the industry,” enthuses Navonne.

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Harbrick’s Norland ECU and PolySync software takes away the hassle of building the back end infrastructure, allowing the developer to focus on building algorithms – the nuts and bolts of an autonomous car. Let’s face it, software already plays an integral part in most cars today, but cars of the future will rely on yet more millions of lines of code, which will differentiate them accordingly. Explains Josh Hartung, co-founder and CEO of Harbrick: “Electric and autonomous are here to stay! A few years down the line, cars will start to look functionally the same i.e. two electric motors and a battery. The difference will be in the software. Whereas there are up to 100 computers communicating with each other in a car today and each ECU focused on a particular application, these will consolidate down to three or less central computers.”

As the shift from ‘many boxes, one function, to one box, many functions’ happens, bandwidth will become the prime enabler. Confirms Hartung: “We are looking at 10 to 40Gb connections to be able to handle the extreme data loads of multiple cameras, radar and lidar used for autonomous driving.”

So what does this mean for CAN? Interestingly, CAN’s role is set to expand. Hartung confirms that most autonomous vehicles have between 8 and 10 CAN channels on board and that CAN will be as necessary in future vehicles as it is today: “CAN’s real-time behaviour, high message integrity and simplicity, among its many attributes, assures its place within the communication infrastructure of tomorrow’s vehicles, particularly for device/motion control, timing and data critical applications.” Asked about CAN FD in autonomous vehicles, Hartung responded: “CAN FD offers us the extra bandwidth to do encryption, so yes, it will undoubtedly have a role to play too.”

Harbrick and its distribution company, AutonomouStuff, a worldwide supplier of systems, equipment and services for autonomous vehicles, are long-term partners of Kvaser. Asked about the use of Kvaser’s mini PCI Express 2xHS within the Norland ECU, Hartung says: “We use a lot of Kvaser hardware. Kvaser has the best Linux CAN library, it is built to the highest quality, is never unreliable and offers the highest message frequency handling, plus we get great support. It’s the reason we can say to customers with confidence that the Norland ECU ‘implements a reliable, real-time, distributed data bus that is ready for anything from the battlefield to the city streets!’.”

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At the event, Kvaser announced that Microchip, with whom it has worked closely to test and validate its IP, is integrating Kvaser’s CAN and CAN FD IP in future controller products destined for automotive and industrial applications. Kvaser also announced a strategic partnership with Synective Labs to commercialize its complete set of IP blocks for CAN FD, which are now available for FPGA and ASICs for non-strategic customers.

Presentations were made by Kent Lenartsson, Kvaser’s research manager, who spoke about a CAN FD filter for Classical CAN controllers, whilst Derek Sum, a Kvaser support engineer, discussed the pros and cons of a wireless replacement for cables in CAN networks. Kvaser’s president Lars Berno Fredriksson chaired the session on higher-layer protocols.

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USBcan Light 4xHS features the sleek, ergonomically designed housing that Kvaser products are renowned for and comes with galvanic isolation as standard. This USB to quad channel Controller Area Network (CAN) interface has a standard USB connector at one end and four high speed CAN channels in a single 26-pin HD D-SUB CAN connector at the other. The supplied HD26-4xDS9 splitter can be used to connect to four separate 9pin DSUB connectors.

USBcan Light 4xHS is supplied with CANlib, the software API that is common to all Kvaser hardware. Quick to programme once you have Canlib downloaded on the host computer, USBcan Light 4xHS is extremely simple to install and configure.

For more information on the USBcan Light 4xHS interface, please click through to: www.kvaser.cn/products/USBcanLight4xHS. Visit www.kvaser.cn/support for resources to help users get started with their devices quickly, included our Quick Start Guides for all products, Kvaser’s Developer Blog and Video tutorials.

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The USBcan Pro 2xHS v2 has a standard USB connector and two high-speed CAN channels with ISO 11898-2 compliant CAN transceivers in two separate 9-pin D-SUB CAN connectors. High-performance, yet compact, it can be used as a simple dual-channel interface to connect two high speed CAN busses to a PC or mobile computer, or by using the programming feature, it is capable of much more. For example, users can run a t program on the Kvaser USBcan Pro 2xHS to speed up file transfer protocols or to emulate ECUs and other devices by generating traffic and handling protocols.

Like the USBcan Light 2xHS, the USBcan Pro 2xHS v2 features the sleek, ergonomically designed housing that Kvaser products are renowned for and comes with galvanic isolation as standard. However, unlike the USBcan Light 2xHS, the Pro version offers t script programming and is shipped with Kvaser TRX, a lightweight development environment that lowers the bar when starting out programming the device. The USBcan Pro 2xHS v2 is also supplied with CANlib, the software API that is common to all Kvaser hardware.

For more information on the Kvaser USBcan Pro 2xHS v2 interface, please click through to: http://www.kvaser.cn/products/kvaser-usbcan-pro-2xhs/

Support and Availability

The Kvaser USBcan Pro 2xHS v2 interface is available now with free software, free software updates and free support. Visit www.kvaser.cn/support for resources to help users get started with their devices quickly, included our Quick Start Guides for all products, Kvaser’s Developer Blog and Video tutorials.

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The Leaf Pro is perhaps the easiest way to connect a computer to a CAN bus network by means of the standard USB interface and 9-pin D-SUB connector. Having made its name as the work-horse of USB to CAN interfaces, Kvaser’s Leaf interface family provide reliable, low cost tools for connecting any CAN network to a PC or mobile computer in applications as wide ranging as automotive, mining, marine, military, oil and gas exploration, industrial and heavy machinery.

Kvaser’s Pro versions boast a high transmit capability that meets the needs of CAN FD frames. The Kvaser Leaf Pro HS v2 transmits the 64 data bytes of a CAN FD frame at bit rates up to 8 Mbit/s, in addition to standard CAN frames of 8 bytes. With a maximum message rate of 20000 messages per second, each time-stamped with a one microsecond accuracy, this is a highly advanced, portable real-time CAN to USB interface that can be customised using Kvaser’s t programming language. For example, users can run a t program to speed up file transfer protocols or to emulate ECUs and other devices by generating traffic and handling protocols.

Commenting on the announcement, Lars-Berno Fredriksson, president of Kvaser AB, said: “Our best-selling interface just got better. CAN FD-capability and programmability make the Kvaser Leaf Pro HS v2 and Kvaser Leaf Pro HS v2 OBDIIour most capable Leafs yet!”

Galvanic isolation is a standard feature of this sleek, ergonomically designed interface. With a 107cm long USB lead, and either a standard 9-pin DSUB or a 16-pin OBDII connector, the Kvaser Leaf Pro HS v2 and Kvaser Leaf Pro HS v2 OBDII suit a wide range of environments, from ECU development and test to in-the-field service situations.

For more information on the Kvaser Leaf Pro HS v2 and Kvaser Leaf Pro HS v2 OBDII interfaces, please click the following link: www.kvaser.cn/products/kvaser-leaf-pro-hs-v2/

Support and Availability

The Leaf Pro HS v2 and Kvaser Leaf Pro HS v2 OBDII are available now with free software, free software updates and free support.

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