MicroCANopen now CANopen compliant
Staff -- Test & Measurement World, 2/1/2004
MicroCANopen V2.0, the minimal CANopen implementation engineered for use on the smallest microcontrollers, is now CANopen conformant. A higher-layer application protocol based on the Controller Area Network (CAN), CANopen (www.canopen.us) can be customized, which makes it suitable for embedded networking applications.
Like the original MicroCANopen version, V2.0 still allows users to implement minimal CANopen-like devices that are not 100% compliant but require a minimum of microcontroller resources. If an implementation needs full compliance and the required resources are available, you can enable CANopen conformance by using a simple compiler switch. An example of a generic I/O device compliant to the CANopen Device Profile DS401 is part of the distribution.
MicroCANopen can be requested for free from the Embedded Systems Academy (San Jose, CA). The code includes drivers for CAN microcontrollers such as the P8XC591 from Philips Semiconductors or the T89C51CC01 from Atmel. www.MicroCANopen.com.
