7 COMMUNICATION FUNCTION
7.13 CAN Transmission Timeout Monitoring Time
The CAN transmission timeout time refers to the timeout monitoring time that takes to
monitor errors that occurred in the CAN controller built in the D.Station and obtain right to
transmit frames into a transmission path is not allowed.
The CAN transmission timeout monitoring feature starts a monitoring operation at the
activation of a transmission to the CAN controller. If a transmission completed notice is
not generated from the CAN controller for a predetermined period of time, this feature
concludes that a timeout has occurred, and removes data from the transmission queue.
The monitoring time varies with the communication type and transfer rate, as shown in
Table 7-12.
Table 7-12 CAN Transmission Timeout Monitoring Time
Communication type
Process communication
Process communication
Transfer rate
125 kbps
200 ms
400 ms
− 82 −
250 kbps
500 kbps
150 ms
100 ms
400 ms
400 ms