PCAN-PC Card – User Manual Contents Introduction Properties at a Glance System Requirements Scope of Supply Installing the Software and the Card Connecting CAN Bus Connection over D-Sub Connector Voltage Supply of External Devices Cabling 3.3.1 Termination 3.3.2 Example of a Connection 3.3.3 Maximum Bus Length Operation...
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PCAN-PC Card – User Manual Appendix A CE Certificate Appendix B Dimension Drawing Appendix C Quick Reference...
PCAN-PC Card – User Manual Introduction The PCAN-ExpressCard provides a connection between a CAN bus and a laptop or desktop PC with an ExpressCard slot. The card is available in single and dual-channel versions. There are also gal- vanically separated versions which guarantee galvanic separation up to a maximum of 300 Volts between the PC and CAN sides.
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 PC Card slot at the computer, PCMCIA type II Operating system Windows 10, 8.1, 7 (32/64-bit)
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: Insert the PCAN-ExpressCard into an ExpressCard slot of your computer.
PCAN-PC Card – User Manual Connecting CAN Bus The arrangement of the CAN channels at the PCAN-PC Card is as follows: CAN 2 CAN 1 Figure 1: Arrangement of the CAN channels (CAN 2 only with Dual Channel models) Connection over D-Sub Connector A High-speed CAN bus (ISO 11898-2) is connected to the 9-pin D-Sub connector.
You can find a detailed description in the following section 3.2. Tip: You can connect a CAN bus with a different transmission standard via a bus converter. PEAK-System offers different bus converter modules (e.g. PCAN-TJA1054 for a Low-speed CAN bus according to ISO 11898-3).
PCAN-PC Card – User Manual The PCAN-PC Card does not have an internal termination. Use the card on a terminated CAN bus. 3.3.2 Example of a Connection Figure 3: Simple CAN connection This example shows a connection between the PCAN-PC Card and a control unit.
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PCAN-PC Card – User Manual The listed values have been calculated on the basis of an idealized system and can differ from reality.
PCAN-PC Card – User Manual Operation Status LED The PCAN-PC Card has a status LED for each existing CAN channel which may be in one of the following conditions: Status Meaning There's a connection to a driver of the operating system Slow blinking A software application is connected to the CAN channel Quick blinking...
PCAN-PC Card – User Manual Software and API This chapter covers the provided software PCAN-View and the programming interface PCAN-Basic. CAN Monitor PCAN-View for Windows 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-PC Card – 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 5: Selection of the specific hardware and parameters Select an interface from the list. From the dropdown list, select the Bit rate that is used by all nodes on the CAN bus.
PCAN-PC Card – User Manual 5.1.1 Receive/Transmit Tab Figure 6: 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-PC Card – 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-PC Card – User Manual 5.1.2 Trace Tab Figure 8: 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-PC Card – User Manual 5.1.3 PCAN-PC Card Tab Figure 9: PCAN-PC Card Tab On the PCAN-PC Card tab, the 5-Volts supply on pin 1 of the D-Sub CAN connector is enabled or disabled. For the Dual Channel model the setting is valid for both CAN connectors simultaneously. You find information about technical details in section 3.2.
PCAN-PC Card – User Manual 5.1.4 Status Bar Figure 10: Example of a status bar The status bar shows information about the current CAN connection, about error counters (Overruns, QXmtFull) and shows error messages. You can find further information about the use of PCAN-View in the help which you can invoke in the program via the Help menu or with the F1 key.
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-PC Card – User Manual Extended system for debugging operations Multilingual debugging output Output language depends on operating system Debugging information can be defined individually 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-PC Card – User Manual Technical Specifications Connectors Computer PC Card PCMCIA type II (16-bit, 5 V) D-Sub (m), 9 pins (at Dual Channel model 2 x) 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...
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PCAN-PC Card – User Manual Environment Operating temperature 0 - 70 °C (32 – 158 °F) Storage temperature -40 - 100 °C (-40 - 212 °F) Relative humidity 15 - 90 %, not condensing Directive 2014/30/EU DIN EN 55024:2016-05 DIN EN 55022:2011-12 Ingress protection IP30 (IEC 60529)
PCAN-PC Card – User Manual Appendix C Quick Reference Software/Hardware Installation under Windows Install the driver from the supplied DVD, before you insert the PCAN-PC Card into a vacant PC Card slot. The card is recognized by Windows and the driver is initialized. The LED (one for each CAN channel) must light red.
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