CANopen: configure and device testing

Author

Farsi, M. ; Ratcliff, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Newcastle upon Tyne Univ., UK

fYear

1997

fDate

1-3 Oct 1997

Firstpage

373

Lastpage

380

Abstract

The paper describes an European field bus communication standard developed during ESPRIT IV project 7302 and subsequently has become known as CANopen. CANopen Configure Device and Test (CDT) software has been developed by Newcastle University (UK) to facilitate the configuring and testing of CANopen devices. The CDT is further enhanced to perform conformance testing of I/O devices. To operate the software requires a PC running Windows and a CAN card supporting CANopen. It allows the use of any CANopen compliant object dictionaries to communicate with the device. Any object can be read or written, for both service data and process data communications. Synchronisation messages can be generated automatically, with real time display and control of synchronous data. Full CANopen network management services and life guarding are implemented and there is an object dictionary editing facility

Keywords

automatic test software; computer network management; conformance testing; field buses; industrial control; local area networks; telecommunication standards; CANopen Configure Device and Test software; CANopen compliant object dictionaries; CANopen devices; CANopen network management services; CDT software; ESPRIT IV project 7302; European field bus communication standard; I/O devices; conformance testing; life guarding; object dictionary editing facility; process data communications; real time display; service data; synchronisation message generation; synchronous data control; Automatic testing; Communication system control; Data communication; Dictionaries; Electronic equipment testing; Manufacturing; Production; Protocols; Software testing; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Factory Communication Systems, 1997. Proceedings. 1997 IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4182-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WFCS.1997.634322

Filename

634322