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Maple and CANBus

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erifet
Member

Hello,

I want to make homeautomation over a CANBus, so i am searching a development card for experimenting this bus.
Is it possible to use CANBus with mapple?
If yes, have you some samples?

Thanks

Posted 5 years ago #
poslathian
LeafLabs

CAN is supported on-die on Maple. That is to say, the stm32f103rbt6 (the chip we use) has a hardware support for CAN and implements the physical layer can protocol. We havnt used it before, however there is growing interest in doing so, as can is quite popular in industrial and automotive settings.

There is a catch, however, in that the USB pins are shared with the CAN pins. So it is mutually exclusive to use either USB or CAN. Maple is currently tooled for USB (it has a USB connector). There may certainly be software/hardware workarounds. We simply have not investigated the issue thoroughly enough to provide a reference implementation.

Please do email us with more information about your project, we may be able to provide you with more specific information. Thanks!

Posted 5 years ago #

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