The cover picture shows the products PCAN-USB X6 with M12 connectors (left) and with D-Sub connectors (right). Imprint PCAN is a registered trademark of PEAK-System Technik GmbH. CiA® is a registered community trade mark of CAN in Automation e.V. All other product names in this document may be the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
3.4 Connect the CAN-Bus 3.5 Example Application under Windows 4 Operation 4.1 Status LEDs 4.2 Unplugging the USB Connection 4.3 Distinguishing Several PCAN-USB X6 5 CAN Monitor PCAN-View 5.1 CAN interface initialize 5.2 Transmit CAN message 5.3 Additional Tabs 6 API PCAN-Basic 6.1 Features of PCAN-Basic...
Install the driver before you connect the CAN interface. 3.1 Install Device Driver Setup 1. Download the device driver setup from our website: www.peak-system.com/quick/DL-Driver-E 2. Unpack the file PEAK-System_Driver-Setup.zip 3. Double-click the file PeakOemDrv.exe The driver setup starts. 4. Follow the program instructions.
PCAN-USB X6. You can unplug the PCAN-USB X6 from the computer without any preparation. 4.3 Distinguishing Several PCAN-USB X6 You can operate several PCAN-USB X6 on a single computer at the same time. The supplied program PCAN-View allows the assignment of device IDs in order to distinguish the several CAN interfaces in a software environment.
The programming interface (API) PCAN-Basic provides basic functions for the connection of own programs to the CAN interface of PEAK-System. PCAN-Basic is the interface between the program and the device driver. In Windows operating systems this is a DLL (Dynamic Link Library) and in Linux operating systems an SO (Dynamic Shared Object).
■ Windows 11, 10 (32/64-bit) ■ Linux (32/64-bit) ■ Multiple PEAK-System applications and your own can be operated on a physical ■ channel at the same time Single DLL (Win) / SO (Linux) for all supported hardware types ■ Use of up to 16 channels for each hardware type ■...
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There is no supply via the USB connection to the PC. Software/Hardware Installation under Windows Download the device drivers installation package from our website www.peak-system.com/quick/DL-Driver-E. Install the driver before you install the CAN interface. Malfunction! Do not use a USB extension cable to connect the PCAN-USB X6 to the computer.
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Appendix D Linux Depending on the Kernel version, device drivers for the CAN interfaces from PEAK- System are already included in the operating system. The CAN interfaces are treated as network devices (SocketCAN, netdev). You can find the documentation for SocketCAN under: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/can.txt...
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