Visit

Hi everyone,
I know this isn't directly CAN bus related but I had the pleasure of a visit
with Lars-Berno Fredriksson from KVASER today.  Been a few years since I met
him.  Got caught up on all the CAN and CANFD things that his company is
doing.  
 
As we discussed the olden days when even CAN drivers weren't available yet,
I realized how much I missed the detailed discussions on the working of the
CAN bus.  It's true though, there are many experts out there now who have
lots of experience and the internet is full of reference information that
wasn't around 20 years ago.  Companies like Microchip have their own forums
and often people interested in the CAN bus never even make it to this list.

 
Browsing through some of the messages from the comp.arch.embedded UseGroup
in 1995, the names of the contributors are Ken Tindell, Edwin Armstrong,
Olaf Pfeiffer, Stephen Pelc and there is a rich amount of information about
CAN.  Ken Tindell started this list that was eventually and is now
graciously supported and maintained by Vector.
 
I've been asked a number of times to put my experience down into either a
book or a series of essays on CAN bus.  I've been fortunate enough to have
had a set of interesting experiences.  Even to being on a team developing
and extension of the CAN bus to run on powerline and deliver Ethernet
Connectivity with up to 4K byte packets between the arbitration and the CRC.
In many ways CAN FD is a subset of that original design.
 
Anyway, I'd like to get some feedback on what might be interesting in a book
or a series of essays.  There's already lots on the low level stuff.  Less
on High Level Protocols and what's there is often deep into the details.
Maybe more implementation examples and how it's done?
 
So the floor is open.  Let's have a discussion on what isn't well
documented.
 
Thanks
John Dammeyer
 
 
 
 
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