The first CAN controller chips were introduced by Intel in 1987, and shortly thereafter by Philips. The protocol was officially released in 1986 at the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) conference in Detroit, Michigan.
Frames are received by all devices, including by the transmitting device.ĭevelopment of the CAN bus started in 1983 at Robert Bosch GmbH. For each device, the data in a frame is transmitted serially but in such a way that if more than one device transmits at the same time, the highest priority device can continue while the others back off. It is a message-based protocol, designed originally for multiplex electrical wiring within automobiles to save on copper, but it can also be used in many other contexts. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī controller area network ( CAN bus) is a vehicle bus standard designed to allow microcontrollers and devices to communicate with each other. ( January 2024) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it to make it understandable to non-experts, without removing the technical details. This article may be too technical for most readers to understand.
