Product Details
CAN (Controlled Area Network) is an asynchronous, 2-wire serial communication protocol. CAN is a vehicle bus standard that is designed to allow microcontrollers and devices to communicate with each other without the need to have a host controller. CAN is well suited for the automotive industry. Its simple 2-wire interface simplifies IC design with fewer pins and smaller packages, thus reducing the board space and cost. The collision detection and arbitration methods defined in CAN help to perform proper communication without errors and issues, making it a reliable protocol interface.
As a part of product validation, it’s important to validate the product’s conformance against the protocol specification to ensure its interoperability. As the complexity of the protocol and product increases, the validation time of the protocol interfaces also increases, which, in turn, reduces the RTM. Performing the protocol conformance testing traditionally needs a lot of time and effort.
Soliton’s CAN Protocol Validation Tool is an off-the-shelf validation tool using NI’s PXI Platform, which helps validate the device’s compliance with the timing and electrical specifications of the CAN protocol. The tool can also validate the device’s tolerance to and recovery from various CAN faults & exceptions and provides a comprehensive set of reports. Users have claimed that using this automated solution for CAN Protocol Validation has brought down the test time/ validation time from a few days to a few hours.
Technical Documentation
Soliton’s CAN Validation Suite is an off the shelf validation tool using NI’s PXI Platform, which helps to validate the devices’ compliance with timing and electrical specifications of the CAN protocol. It contains the below components.
- NI PXIe 657x – Digital Pattern Generation Card with the PXIe Chassis setup
- Oscilloscope – For performing voltage measurements
- Soliton CAN Validation Suite Software compatible with Windows OS (Win 10)
Hardware
Soliton’s CAN Validation suite is based on the NI – PXI Platform, and the below NI part configuration lists the hardware required to perform the validation
Support & Training
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TYPICAL USER BASE FOR CAN VALIDATION SUITE
- Design Engineers, Test Engineers, Post Silicon Validation Engineers, Engineering Managers, Validation Managers, Lab Managers etc. from the Semiconductor Industry.
- Post Silicon validation of Chips with CAN interface
- Semiconductor Chip Manufacturers making CAN Devices
- Product Manufacturers making products with CAN interface