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LMT
Layer Management; one of the service elements of the CAN
Application Layer in the CAN Reference Model. It serves to
configure parameters for each layer in the CAN Reference Model.
NMT
Network Management; one of the service elements of the CAN
Application Layer in the CAN Reference Model. It performs
initialisation, configuration and error handling on a CAN network.
Object dictionary
A local storage of all Communication Objects (COB) recognised
by a device
OSI
Open Systems Interconnection
PDO
Process Data Object; a type of COB. Used for transmitting time
critical data, such as control commands, references and actual
values.
RO
Denotes read-only access.
RW
Denotes read/write access.
SDO
Service Data Object; a type of COB. Used for transmitting
non time critical data, such as parameters.
Definitions and abbreviations