Originally developed for onboard automobile systems, the CAN communication bus is now used in many fields, including:
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Transport,
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Mobile devices,
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Medical equipment,
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Construction,
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Industrial control.
The strong features of the CAN system are:
A CANopen architecture includes:
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A bus master (TSX CPP 110 PCMCIA card),
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Slave devices, also called nodes.
The following illustration shows a CANopen field bus architecture:
