PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual Contents Introduction Properties at a Glance System Requirements Scope of Supply Installing the Software and the Card Connecting the CAN Bus Connection over D-Sub connector 3.1.1 Slot Bracket with D-Sub Connectors Voltage Supply of External Devices Cabling 3.3.1 Termination...
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PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual Appendix B Dimension Drawing Appendix C Quick Reference...
PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual Introduction The PCAN-PCI Express card enables the connection of a PC with PCI Express slots to CAN networks. There is galvanic isolation of up to 500 Volts between the computer and CAN sides. The card is available as a single, dual, or four-channel version.
Windows. You can find device drivers for Linux and the corresponding application information on the provided DVD in the directory branch Develop and on our website under www.peak-system.com/linux. System Requirements A vacant PCI Express slot in the computer Operating system Windows 10, 8.1, 7 (32/64-bit)
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The navigation program starts. Select in the main menu Drivers and click on Install now. Confirm the message of the User Account Control related "Installer database of PEAK Drivers". The driver setup starts. Follow the program instructions. Do the following to install the card: Attention! Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage or destroy components on the card.
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Do the following to check the operational readiness: Open the Windows Start menu. Type peakcpl and press Enter . The information window for PEAK hardware appears. The plug-in card must be displayed in the table on the CAN Hardware tab.
PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual Connecting the CAN Bus Connection over D-Sub connector A High-speed CAN bus (ISO 11898-2) is connected to the 9-pin D-Sub connector. The pin assignment for CAN corresponds to the specification CiA® 303-1. Figure 1: Position of the sockets for the CAN connection, CAN 3 (upper left position), CAN 4 (upper right position) Figure 2: Pin assignment of High-speed CAN connection (view onto a male connector on the PCAN-PCI Express card)
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For more information see the next section 3.2. Tip: Connect a CAN bus with a different transmission standard via a bus converter. PEAK-System offers different bus converter modules like the PCAN-TJA1054 for a Low-speed CAN bus according to ISO 11898-3.
PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual 3.1.1 Slot Bracket with D-Sub Connectors Figure 4: Dual channel slot bracket Four-channel version only: To connect a CAN bus to the PCAN-PCI Express card, use the supplied slot bracket. After you have con- nected the cables from the slot bracket with the 10-pin sockets of CAN port 3 and 4, you can connect the CAN busses with the D-Sub sockets.
PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual Voltage Supply of External Devices External devices with low power consumption (e.g. bus converters) can be directly supplied via the CAN connector (independently for each connector on the dual or four-channel version). With a solder bridge per CAN channel on the PCAN-PCI Express board, a 5-Volt supply can optionally be routed to pin 1 of the D-Sub connector.
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PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual Figure 5: Position of the solder fields on the board’s bottom side for a 5-Volt supply at the CAN connection 5-Volt supply D-Sub connector Solder field Without With (Standard) (Pin 1) CAN 1 JP100 CAN 2 JP200 CAN 3 JP300...
PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual Cabling 3.3.1 Termination The High-speed CAN bus (ISO 11898-2) must be terminated with 120 ohms at both ends. The termination prevents interfering signal reflections and ensures the proper operation of the transceiver of the connected CAN nodes (CAN interface, control device). The PCAN-PCI Express card does not have an internal termination.
PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual 3.3.3 Maximum Bus Length High-speed CAN networks may have bit rates of up to 1 Mbit/s. The maximum bus length depends primarily on the bit rate. The following table shows the maximum possible CAN bus length at different bit rates: Bit rate Bus length...
PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual Software and API This chapter covers the provided software PCAN-View and the programming interface PCAN-Basic. Monitor Software PCAN-View PCAN-View is simple Windows software for viewing, transmitting, and logging CAN and CAN FD messages. Note: This chapter describes the use of PCAN-View with a CAN adapter.
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PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual Do the following to start and initialize PCAN-View: Open the Windows Start menu and select PCAN-View. The Connect dialog box appears. Figure 8: Selection of the hardware and parameters Select an interface from the list. From the drop-down list, select the Bit rate that is used by all nodes on the CAN bus.
PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual 4.1.1 Receive/Transmit Tab Figure 9: Receive/Transmit Tab The Receive/Transmit tab is the main element of PCAN-View. It contains two lists, one for received messages and one for the transmit messages. The CAN data format is hexadecimal by default. Do the following to transmit a CAN message with PCAN-View: Select the menu command Transmit >...
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PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual Enter the ID, the data Length, and the CAN message Data. Note: With the program version 4 of PCAN-View, the DLC field was renamed to Length. Latter reflects the actual data length. Enter a value into the Cycle Time field to choose manually or periodically message transmission.
PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual 4.1.2 Trace Tab Figure 11: Trace Tab On the Trace tab, the data tracer (data logger) of PCAN-View is used for logging the communication on a CAN bus. During this process the messages are cached in the working memory of the PC. Afterwards they can be saved to a file.
PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual 4.1.3 PCAN-PCI Express Tab Figure 12: PCAN-PCI tab (example) The PCAN-PCI Express tab contains some detailed information about the hardware and driver. 4.1.4 Status Bar Figure 13: Display of the Status Bar The status bar shows information about the current CAN connection, about error counters (Overruns, QXmtFull) and shows error messages.
On the provided DVD, you can find files of the programming interface PCAN-Basic in the directory branch Develop. This API provides basic functions for linking own programs to CAN- and CAN FD interfaces by PEAK-System and can be used for the following operating systems: Windows 10, 8.1, 7 (32/64-bit) Windows CE 6.x (x86/ARMv4)
Use of up to 16 channels for each hardware unit (depending on the PEAK CAN interface used) Simple switching between channels of a PEAK CAN interface Driver-internal buffer for 32,768 messages per CAN channel Precision of time stamps on received messages up to 1 μs (depending on the PEAK CAN interface used) Supports PEAK-System‘s trace formats version 1.1 and 2.0 (for...
PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual Extended system for debugging operations Multilingual debugging output Output language depends on operating system Debugging information can be defined individually Thread-safe API Tip: An overview of the API functions is located in the header files. You can find detailed information about the PCAN-Basic API on the provided DVD in the text and help files (file name extensions .txt and .chm).
Notes about the License Device drivers, the interface DLL, and further files needed for linking are property of the PEAK-System Technik GmbH and may be used only in connection with a hardware component purchased from PEAK-System or one of its partners. If a CAN hardware component...
PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual Technical Specifications Connectors Computer PCI Express x1 (1 Lane), Specification 1.1 D-Sub (m), 9 pins Pin assignment according to specification CiA® 303-1 Specification ISO 11898-2, High-speed CAN 2.0A (standard format) and 2.0B (extended format) Bit rates 5 kbit/s - 1 Mbit/s Controller FPGA implementation (SJA1000 compatible)
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PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual Environment Operating temperature -40 - +85 °C Temperature for storage -40 - +125 °C and transport Relative humidity 15 - 90 %, not condensing Directive 2014/30/EU DIN EN 55024:2016-05 DIN EN 55022:2011-12...
PCAN-PCI Express – User Manual Appendix B Dimension Drawing Figure 15: Dimension drawing PCAN-PCI Express The figure does not show the actual size of the product.
Check the operational readiness. Open the Windows Start menu. Type peakcpl and press Enter . An information window for PEAK Hardware opens. The plug-in card must be displayed in the table on the CAN Hardware tab. Getting Started under Windows Run the CAN monitor PCAN-View from the Windows Start menu as a sample application for accessing the card.
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