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1.3 Scope of Supply 2 Setting 2.1 Voltage Supply of External Devices 3 Installation 3.1 Install Device Driver Setup 3.2 Installing the PCAN-PCI card 3.3 Check Operational Readiness 4 Connecting the CAN Bus 4.1 Connection over D-Sub connector 4.2 Cabling 4.3 Example Application under Windows...
Introduction The plug-in card PCAN-PCI enables the connection of a PC with PCI slots to CAN networks. The card is available as a single or dual channel version. The opto-decoupled versions also guarantee galvanic isolation of up to 500 V between the PC and the CAN sides.
Installation This chapter covers the software setup for the PCAN-PCI card in Windows and the installation of the card in the computer. Note: For installation on Linux, see Appendix E Linux. Install the driver before you install the CAN interface.
Windows detects the new hardware and completes the driver installation. 3.3 Check Operational Readiness 1. Open the Windows Start menu. 2. Type Peak Settings and press |Enter|. The window PEAK Settings appears. 3. Select CAN Hardware. The connected CAN interface is displayed.
The termination prevents interfering signal reflections and ensures the proper operation of the transceivers of the connected CAN nodes (CAN interfaces, control devices). The CAN interface PCAN-PCI does not have an internal termination. Use the CAN interface on a terminated CAN bus. 4.2.2 Example of a Connection This example shows a connection between the PCAN Interface and a control unit (ECU).
The programming interface (API) PCAN-Basic provides basic functions for the connection of own programs to the CAN and CAN FD Interfaces 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).
Use of a single DLL for all supported hardware types ■ Use of up to 16 channels for each hardware type (depending on the PEAK CAN ■ interface used) Simple switching between channels of a PEAK CAN interface ■...
PCAN-PCI opto: up to 500 V, separate for each connection PCAN-PCI: D-Sub pin 1 / pin 9; 5 V, max. 100 mA Supplying external devices PCAN-PCI opto: D-Sub pin 1 / pin 9; 5 V, max. 50 mA not assigned at delivery Internal termination none...
The new hardware is detected at the next Windows start and the driver is initialized. Check the operational readiness. Open the Windows Start menu. Type Peak Settings and press |Enter|. The window PEAK settings appears. The connected CAN interface is displayed under CAN Hardware.
Appendix E Linux Depending on the Kernel version, device drivers for the CAN interfaces from PEAK- System are already included in the operating system. The PCAN interfaces are handled 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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