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Kvaser PCIcan Hardware Reference Manual 2(21) (This page is intentionally left blank.) Kvaser AB, Mölndal, Sweden — www.kvaser.com...
External power supply (PCIcan–SWC2 and –SWC1) ............10 CAN Bus Termination (PCIcan-Q) ..................10 CAN Bus Termination (PCIcan-D, -S) ................... 10 CAN Bus Termination (PCIcan-LS2, -LS1, -SWC2, -SWC1) ..........10 The D-SUB connector(s) ......................11 5.10 Intended Audience ........................13 5.11...
KVASER’s PCIcan cards for CAN systems feature up to four CAN controllers. The outputs from the CAN circuits are connected to a 25 pin DSUB (PCIcan-Q) or one or two 9-pin DSUB (all other types) via optocouplers and CAN bus driver circuits.
Kvaser PCIcan Hardware Reference Manual 5(21) 2.3 PCIcan Features Up to four CAN circuits on one card. Optical isolation between the card and the CAN buses. DC/DC power supply to galvanically isolated bus drivers. Kvaser AB, Mölndal, Sweden — www.kvaser.com...
PC ground by a switch on the PCIcan board. Other Features Fast optocouplers between CAN circuits and drivers. CAN driver part fed by the PC through DC/DC-converters (the PCIcan-SWC2, and -SWC1 requires external power supply.) Kvaser AB, Mölndal, Sweden — www.kvaser.com...
AMCC S5920 AMCC S5920 CAN 2 (equal to CAN 1) – only on PCIcan-D IRQ A PCI Bus Connector PCI Bus Connector Figure 2: Block diagram for PCIcan–D, –S, –LS2, –LS1, –SWC2, and –SWC1. Kvaser AB, Mölndal, Sweden — www.kvaser.com...
Figure 3: The switches on the PCIcan-Q board 5.2 The CAN Bus On PCIcan-Q, -D and –S, the CAN bus drivers are 82C251 type and compliant with the ISO 11898 physical layer standard. On PCIcan-LS2 and –LS1, the CAN bus drivers are of TJA1053 or TJA1054 type.
The CAN bus is galvanically isolated from the card by means of fast optocouplers. These optocouplers introduce a small signal delay and decreases the maximum allowed bus length somewhat. For PCIcan-S, PCIcan-D, and PCIcan-Q, the optocouplers allow for a CAN bus speed up to 1 Mbit/s. 5.3 Selecting Driver Ground (PCIcan-Q only) Using switch pack SW1 you can connect the grounds at the driver part to the ground of the PC.
PC. You must supply power to the bus driver from an external source. The power shall be supplied to pin 9 on the D-SUB connector (s). For PCIcan-SWC2 you need to supply power to both connectors.
Kvaser PCIcan Hardware Reference Manual 11(21) 5.9 The D-SUB connector(s) Table 3. The 25-pin DSUB connector on the PCIcan-Q. Function 1, 2 Ground to CAN drivers #1 and #2. 14, 15 Ground to CAN drivers #3 and #4. CAN-L for the common CAN bus.
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Kvaser PCIcan Hardware Reference Manual 12(21) Table 4. The 9-pin DSUB connector(s) on PCIcan-S, -D, -LS2 and -LS1. Function CAN-L CAN-H Signal ground. Table 5. The 9-pin DSUB connector(s) on PCIcan-SWC2 and –SWC1. Function CAN-H Signal ground. Vcc for the SWC driver. You need to supply +12V DC on this pin.
Kvaser PCIcan Hardware Reference Manual 13(21) Figure 4: The CAN buses on the PCIcan-D, -LS2, and –SWC2. On the –S, LS1, and – SWC1, the “CAN2” connector is not present.Software Development Information 5.10 Intended Audience This section is intended for those who want to program the PCIcan card directly. Normally, you would choose to use the supporting device drivers available for the PCIcan card.
PCIcan family are explicitly noted wherever they occur. 5.13 The PCI bus controller All PCIcan boards use the same PCI controller, which is an S5920 from AMCC. The PCI controller is responsible for address decoding and interrupt steering.
PTADR signal. 5.15 Interrupts The PCIcan uses one PCI bus interrupt, INTA#. It is asserted whenever one or more SJA1000’s have their interrupts active. To reset an active interrupt, read the interrupt status register in all present SJA1000s – the interrupt of the corresponding SJA1000 will then automatically clear.
Kvaser PCIcan Hardware Reference Manual 16(21) The following data are configured automatically into the S5920 PCI controller when power is applied to the card. Item Value Vendor Id 0x10e8 Device Id 0x8406 (for all PCIcan boards) Revision Id Class Code...
Kvaser PCIcan Hardware Reference Manual 17(21) 6 Support The PCIcan boards are supported by driver routines and program examples for Windows 95/98/ME and Windows NT/2000/XP. The software is distributed separately and is not further documented here. Please refer to the documentation that is packaged with the software.
Kvaser PCIcan Hardware Reference Manual 18(21) 7 References PCI Products Data Book S5920 / S5933 (1998) Also available on the web (www.amcc.com) in the file 7.1.1.1 AMCC pciprod.pdf. Philips SJA1000 Stand-Alone Controller. Preliminary Specification. 1997 Nov 04. Also available on the web.
1 of July 2006. However, the complete line of Kvaser PCIcanx boards will achieve full conformance to the RoHS directive when it becomes effective 1 of July 2006. Kvaser PCIcan and Kvaser PCIcanx is fully software compatible with each other.
2006-02 Original revision Reviewed – New layout, new dsub connector pics. 2006-11-10 2008-12-01 Updated legal information. Added paragraph stating that the PCIcan devices are no longer recommended for new designs; use the PCIcanx instead. Kvaser AB, Mölndal, Sweden — www.kvaser.com...
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