FPGA-based testbed for timing behavior evaluation of the Controller Area Network (CAN)

Author

Ziermann, T. ; Butiu, A. ; Teich, Jurgen ; Ziener, Daniel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

5-7 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The Controller Area Network (CAN) is one of the most popular networks for industrial distributed embedded systems, particularly automotive systems. In these systems the timely transmission of data messages is a key requirement. In this paper, a physical testbed is presented that allows the evaluation of the timing behavior of CAN message transmissions. The use of FPGAs as processing nodes allows to accurately perform measurements without influencing the original system due to the inherent parallelism of programmable hardware. As a case study, the improvement of response times by using dynamic scheduling of messages is shown with the testbed. Furthermore, the testbed helps to identify time critical simulation parameters.

Keywords

automotive engineering; computerised instrumentation; controller area networks; data communication; embedded systems; field buses; field programmable gate arrays; parallel processing; performance evaluation; scheduling; CAN message transmissions; FPGA-based testbed; automotive systems; controller area network; data message transmissions; dynamic message scheduling; industrial distributed embedded systems; processing nodes; programmable hardware parallelism; response times; time critical simulation parameters; timing behavior evaluation; Clocks; Field programmable gate arrays; Load modeling; Protocols; Time factors; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cancun

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2919-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ReConFig.2012.6416750

Filename

6416750