Newsletter 2017-06-07

Dear reader, emotas’ opinion counts. Since many years the software engineers of emotas has been taking part at the CAN in Automation e.V. working groups with know-how to forward the standardization of CANopen. The result are innovative products which are made just for you. emotas’ successful commitment at the CAN in Automation e.V. Our expert…

Dear reader,

emotas’ opinion counts. Since many years the software engineers of emotas has been taking part at the CAN in Automation e.V. working groups with know-how to forward the standardization of CANopen. The result are innovative products which are made just for you.


emotas’ successful commitment at the CAN in Automation e.V.

Our expert Steffen Rose is currently managing the ‘CANopen JTF CiA/EnergyBus: Energy management systems (EMS)’. Together with EnergyBus e.V. they define the CiA-profile 454 (EnergyBus) for energy management systems in light electric vehicles (LEV). Andreas Boebel and Alexander Philipp are involved in further development of CANopen FD at the working groups ‘IG CANopen’ and ‘SIG application layer’. In this group first multi vendor demo networks by using the new USDO service has been shown. Furthermore emotas has already realized CANopen FD solutions on different embedded platforms. Besides EnergyBus Steffen Rose is supporting the ‘SIG application layer TF security’ focusing on security issues concerning CAN, CANopen and CAN FD. Torsten Gedenk is supporting the ‘SIG application layer TF CiA 309/TF IoT’ with his knowledge of gateways from Internet to CANopen networks. So emotas’ experts are taking part at all currently important working groups dealing with the issues CANopen, CANopen FD, EnergyBus and contiguous topics. Last but not least emotas has been elected by the general assembly of the association members to the Business Committee of the CiA e.V.
These different technical working groups of the CiA e.V. we also consider as a platform for your interests. Please do not hesitate to contact us. We can represent you on-site.


More memory areas for the CANopen Boot loader

The emotas’ CANopen Boot loader is supporting the segmented SDO transfer as well as the SDO block transfer. What’s new is the support for several memory sections, which can be written individually by the 0x1f50 object.
These different memory areas may be include an application and several independent data sections. It is therefore possible to update calibration data or configuration data via the boot loader separated from the application. The access to the CANopen Boot loader according to CiA302 is possible with every CANopen Master. Of course, all current versions of our tools like CANopen DeviceExplorer and especially the CANopen UpdateManager are supporting the access to the additional memory areas.
/en/produkte/canopen-bootloader


News of our stacks and tools

Version 2.7 of the CANopen stack includes updates and improvements concerning individual CAN drivers. For example the MultiCAN driver of the XMC4000 family: it has been upgraded with a bus-off-identification according to Errata MultiCAN_AI.H007. Concerning the driver for the AT90CAN128 we were able to reduce the interrupt time. With immediate effect the SAM C21 of Atmel is supported, too. Additionally, the multi-line variant now supports the separate initialization of single lines and the SDO-Client-Queue supports the transfer of data from the server’s object dictionary into the client’s one.
/en/produkte/canopen-slave-stack

The latest version of 2.7 of the EnergyBus LEV Framework includes all upgrades of the CANopen stack. Additionally the framework and the EnergyBus DeviceWizard does support manufacturer specific devices as slave or inside the EBC.
/produkte/energybus-framework

Version 2.6.2 of the CANopen DeviceExplorer now supports further scripting commands and the work on greater projects in the DataLinker add-on has been sped up.
/en/produkte/canopen-device-explorer


save the date! – coming in fall

You are invited to take part at our public training for J1939, CANopen and EnergyBus in Merseburg on 24th, 25th and 26th October. Please do not hesitate to register now.
/en/events/schulungstermine

Let’s meet at the SPS IPC Drives in Nuremberg.
From 28th until 30th November 2017 you’re invited to use the opportunity to see our products live at the booth 125 in hall 6.
/en/allgemein/sps-ipc-drives-2017

With kind regards
your emotas team