CAN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM: System Description: Description

• CAN (Controller Area Network) is a serial communication line for real time application. It is an on-vehicle multiplex communication line with high data communication speed and excellent error detection ability. Many electronic control units are equipped onto a vehicle, and each control unit shares information and links with other control units during operation (not independent). In CAN communication, control units are connected with 2 communication lines (CAN-H line, CAN-L line) allowing a high rate of information transmission with less wiring. Each control unit transmits/receives data but selectively reads required data only.
• The following control units include a gateway function and communicate signals between the different CAN communication circuits.

CAN Communication Signal Generation

• Termination circuits (resistors) are connected across the CAN communication system. When transmitting a CAN communication signal, each control unit passes a current to the CAN-H line and the current returns to the CAN-L line.
  Fig 1: CAN Communication Signal Generation Circuit Diagram

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• The current flows separately into the termination circuits connected across the CAN communication system and the termination circuits drop voltage to generate a potential difference between the CAN-H line and the CAN-L line.
  NOTE: A signal with no current passage is called "Recessive" and one with current passage is called "Dominant".
  Fig 2: CAN Communication System Voltage Graph

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• The system produces digital signals for signal communications, by using the potential difference.
  Fig 3: CAN Communication System Digital Signals Graph

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The Construction of CAN Communication Signal (Message)

Fig 4: Identifying Construction Of CAN Communication Signal (Message)

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