Press Release from PEAK-System Technik GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany, April 2012
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Title: A Bridge from RS-232 to CAN
PCAN-RS-232 - Programmable Converter RS-232 to CAN

With the PCAN-RS-232, PEAK-System offers a versatile converter for RS-232 to CAN. This allows, for example, the connection to CAN bus of control or diagnostic units having a serial interface.

The central part of the converter is the freely programmable microcontroller NXP LPC2194 with 16/32-bit ARM CPU. Using the supplied library and the WinARM software (contains the GNU Compile Collection GCC for C and C++) a custom firmware can be created and afterwards be transferred to the module via CAN. This offers a variety of possibilities to manipulate, evaluate, filter, and route the data traffic.

On delivery, the converter is provided with a demo firmware that performs simple forwarding from CAN to RS-232 and vice versa. The data transmission as well as the hardware can be configured with serial control commands. The corresponding source code and further programming examples are included.

The converter can be used on High-speed CAN busses with bit rates from 40 kbit/s to 1 Mbit/s. Data transfer between CAN and RS-232 is possible with up to 115,200 bit/s.


Contact:
PEAK-System Technik GmbH
Otto-Roehm-Strasse 69
64293 Darmstadt
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)6151 8173-20
Fax:   +49 (0)6151 8173-29

E-mail: info@peak-system.com
Web: www.peak-system.com
