Controller Area Network(CAN)

Name: Controller Area Network(CAN)
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Automotive communication protocol CAN

Last updated 1/2022

English

What you'll learn

2 sections • 11 lectures • 1h 22m total length

Course and author introduction1:20
Need for ECU Communication3:26
Discover how the controller area network communication protocol enables ECU-to-ECU data exchange among brakes, steering, suspension, and airbags, guided by rules for efficient interdependent control.
Electronic control unit (ECU)4:15
Challenges in ECU communication5:26

CAN communication protocol features4:54
CAN is a two-wire serial bus linking microcontrollers in a message-based, multi-master network with identifier-based messages and no addresses; no clock exists and speed decreases with longer bus length.
Outstanding Features of CAN protocol29:19
Standard and Extended frame formats6:03
Compare the standard and extended CAN frame formats, noting that the standard uses a single dominant bit and an 11-bit identifier, while the extended format adds extra identifier bits.
Arbitration process8:14
Error frame and overload frames11:45
Examine how the bus detects errors using error frames during arbitration, causing message abortion and node shutdown. Learn message-level crc and ack errors and bit-level stuffing and dominant bit rules.
Fault confinement in CAN communication2:33
CAN node interfacing4:53
Learn how to interface a microcontroller with a CAN bus, understand CAN nodes and dominant bit signaling, and ISO-standard bus termination for reliable low and high-speed CAN.

CAN protocol overview: Introduction to the CAN protocol, Overview of Reasons for the development of CAN Comparison of CAN with other serial communication protocols, ISO-OSI layers of CAN, CAN vehicle network Architecture, Features of CAN protocol, Frame formats of CAN
CAN physical layer: CAN nodes, CAN Bus voltage levels and node interfacing techniques, CAN bit timings and baud rate settings
CAN data link layer: CAN Bus arbitration, CAN Bus Fault Confinement

Anyone who like to have career in Automotive domain ( or who are currently working), validation engineers, test engineers, embedded programmers, with applications using CAN