CAN  Products

COMSOL supply a variety of  interfaces between PCs and the CAN bus.  Manufactured by Peak System Technik  -  all units are available with or without optical isolation and all include the free PCAN Lite software package.

USB  

Rapidly becoming the favourite for its ease of use with desktops or portables. Runs on W98/2000/XP/Vista.

PC (PCMCIA) interface

Available with one or two ports per card.

PCI card interface

Available with one or two ports per card.

PC-104 and 104 plus

Single and dual channel support is available for these small format PC specs. 

Parallel port - Dongle

This Peak interface via the parallel port was Peaks original CAN product - it is available with or without printer pass-through.

ISA card interface

Available with one or two ports per card.

CAN Router and CAN bus extender

A CAN router will take information from one CAN bus, filter or modify it and send it to a second bus.  In its simplest form it acts as a CAN bus extender.

Cables, converters and isolation

We can supply ready assembled high quality CAN cables, a number of isolation and converter modules as well as OBD-2 connectors and custom cabling.

CAN232

Made by Lawicel this interface links any CAN network to a standard RS232 line.  It uses a simple serial protocol so can be easily driven from an embedded systems RS232 port or from a PC with COM: output strings.

CANUSB

Made by Lawicel this interface links any CAN network to a PC via a USB port.  It uses the USB serial class protocol so looks to the PC like an RS232 COM: port.

PCAN Lite

All Peak CAN interfaces include the Lite package that includes DLLs and example programs for C++, VB, Pascal and Delphi.  They also include PCANVIEW a useful diagnostics application that displays all messages on the bus as well as allowing manual creation of test messages.  Linux versions are also available.

Explorer

This is a more sophisticated diagnostics package that turns your interface into a protocol analyser.  It includes facilities to log data to disk and to create complex test and debug sequences that may be controlled by macros and even to display an operator panel driven from the CAN messages.

FMS Toolkit

This package is specifically designed for users of the G1939 FMS truck and bus standard.  It can be used to display the FMS messages on a simulated dashboard, and log the data to disk. Alternatively data can be taken from a manual control panel, or from a pre-recorded log and sent to the CAN bus to simulate a situation. 

Developer

For multi channel and event triggered applications this package provides a more powerful API than the Lite package.

Other CAN software

Drivers are available to integrate the Peak range into a number of standards these include  CANopen, Linux and  Labview.

Industrial I/O modules

Based on our flexible MicroModule these units are supplied in a rugged case with snap-in termination for use in a wide range of CAN I/O data collection applications

MicroModule

This simple board can be used for a variety of I/O tasks. 8 digital in, 8 out, 8 *10 bit analogue inputs and 4 PWM outputs all configurable via an on board micro and the CAN bus. Size = 32*36mm.  An evaluation board makes an ideal learning tool. 

LIN Interface and Gateway

Our LIN gateway provides a simple link between CAN and LIN or between RS232 and LIN.  Ideal either for systems that require both LIN and CAN standards or, when used with any of our CAN interfaces, as a low cost LIN interface.