Archive for October, 2008

CAN “Brotherhood” : SDS, DeviceNet and CAN Kingdom

DeviceNet, SDS and CAN Kingdom are all based on the ISO 11898 CAN communication protocol and circuits meeting the CAN specification. This implies that modules following any of the protocols can be connected to a very same CAN-bus. However, when modules following different protocols are connected to the same CAN bus, most often problems will arise due to conflicting interpretation of messages at the application level. CAN Kingdom differs from SDS and DeviceNet in one major principle way: CAN...