Sizing of termination resistors for a fault tolerant CAN bus

Michael Noone <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.bus.can
Message-ID <CAHgY2qTRvDVOS22YYAiWixhg6n2+Di9CA1OVwBSvkAdTc=VuLg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi - I am interested in finding a means of surviving my CANL or CANH lines
being shorted to either ground or +14.4VDC. The CAN transceiver I'm using -
the Ti SN65HVD1050QDRQ1 - can handle this just fine. But I would have to
use very high power resistors (with split termination, I believe I need
about 1W resistors) for my termination. That puts us into 2512 SMT
resistors. That's rather large!

I have seen some wide resistors with higher power handling abilities - like
the Rohm LTR series. But that still leaves us with a 1020 sized resistor.
Still large!

Has anybody run into this before and come up with something clever? The
suggestions that we've come up with in the office is to either make all
transceivers sleep when a high voltage is detected on the bus (most
dangerous on the CANH line) or to somehow actively disable the termination
when a high voltage is detected. Neither solution is perfect IMHO.

What do you think?

Thank you!

-Michael
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