USB-CAN Bus Interface

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The purpose of this project is a simple and easy to use USB<>CAN bus interface. Heart of the circuit is an Atmel AVR ATmega162 microcontroller which controls the Communication between FTDI FT245BM USB to parallel converter and Philips SJA1000 Stand-alone CAN bus controller.
The SJA1000 is memory mapped into memory space of the AVR, which reduces data and address line handling and increases data transfer speed.
An FT245BM handles all USB communication and provides data transfer from and to PC application. An extra EEPROM can store the multi device template for the FT245BM.
A Philips PCA82C250/251 works as CAN controller interface.

Firmware is written in C, compatible to latest compiler version WinAVR.

The firmware is now compatible to run on a CANDIP module. The download include a pre-compiled firmware file to flash into a CANDIP module. Both pins for LED connection remaining the same.

Layout Eagle
Layout Gerber
Layout Target3001
Sourcecode CAN Control
Sourcecode CAN Control
CANHacker v2.00.01
Documentation Issue F
Firmware v1.09
Layout Issue B
Schematic

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