CAN BUS Converter

[Jester]

I have been asked to build a test fixture for a PCB, the board has (among other things) a CAN BUS interface that needs to be go/no-go tested. I have no experience using CAN BUS. I'm thinking the best approach is to pickup a suitable OTS CAN to USB converter.

Can anyone recomend a suitable OTS converter that comes with decent documentation that would allow the test PC to establish the communication link and then send and receive a message to verify the CAN bus interface is functional. The test software would need to do this as part of a sequence of other tests so perhaps by simply sending/receiving data on the USB port or with a hook to a DLL etc.

[tecman]

http://www.peak-system.com/PCAN-USB.199.0.html?L=1

paul

[0xfede]

I use this one and never had a problem:
http://www.microchip.com/Developmenttools/ProductDetails.aspx?PartNO=APGDT002

It is also cheap and you can find it on farnell, digikey or whatever.

Best,
0xfede

[nctnico]

I have the Lawicel CAN-USB dongle which seems to work OK but I have never gotten to the point where I needed to write my own software for it.
http://www.can232.com/?page_id=16

[Gabri74]

Bought one of those:

http://www.8devices.com/products/usb2can

It's isolated and has linux kernel driver (i guess it was worth mentioning because meybe your scripting/test suite runs on linux).
Works flawlessly.

[tmbinc]

I've used a couple of the 8devices USB2CAN in an automotive environment and never had any issues.

The Lawicel is easier to use since it's FTDI-based (and hence enumerates as a serial port, and uses a simple ASCII protocol), but the bandwidth is severely limited because of that. In linux, socketcan support for Lawicel doesn't work great (slcan).

[Kohanbash]

I have used the peak and kvaser ones reliably

http://www.phytools.com/PEAK_IPEH_002021_PCAN_USB_Adapter_p/IPEH-002021.htm?gclid=CjwKEAjw8OLGBRCklJalqKHzjQ0SJACP4BHrSJJJKXftA1j1crIFvAORUenq4keRLN82HXlTBlfuTxoCXtzw_wcB

http://www.phytools.com/Kvaser_Leaf_Light_V2_CAN_USB_Interface_p/KV-00685-0.htm?gclid=CjwKEAjw8OLGBRCklJalqKHzjQ0SJACP4BHr6I28-DQ1ZrRyEoEMgs_cQJXL-NXiEqsN08nayTaq6hoCrmrw_wcB

[gedass2000]

TouCAN USB to CAN converter from Rusoku:
https://www.rusoku.com/products
They use open source CANAL interface.