The three-bus board

Among the most critical points in automotive electronics are intersections of different bus systems. Those areas need to be designed and tested thoroughly – and it’s a bonus when the development device can be used in all stages, even in production.

With the CAN-IB120/PCIe Mini, Ixxat extends its PCIe card series by a PCIe Mini format board with two CAN channels and galvanically isolated interfaces, which measures 30 mm x 51 mm.
In addition to the passive CAN-IB100/PCIe and the active CAN-IB200/PCIe, both available as standard and low-profile versions, CAN-IB120/PCIe Mini enables the implementation of a CAN interface in applications with limited space.

CAN-IB100/PCIe and CAN-IB200/PCIe are equipped with up to four high-speed CAN interfaces, optionally switchable to low-speed, and with up to four LIN or K-line interfaces. The galvanic isolation of the interfaces is available as an option. The modular architecture of the boards also enables the easy addition of customer-specific interfaces using piggyback modules.
For use in applications with high demands on data pre-processing, e.g. ‘intelligent’ onboard handling and active filtering of messages to be sent and received, CAN-IB200/PCIe provides a 32 bit microcontroller system.
For the connection to the PC, Ixxat supplies the cards with its VCI driver (Virtual CAN Interface). The Windows driver supports all card interfaces and allows their usage both with customer-specific programs and with analysis and configuration tools from Ixxat. Since the VCI driver also supports all other Ixxat PC interfaces, it enables the user to change the type of interface without any adaptation of the customer application. In addition, drivers for the real-time Windows extensions RTX and InTime as well as for Linux are available.