CAN for CompactRIO

This topic describes the use of CompactRIO with CAN.

What is CompactRIO?

National Instruments CompactRIO is an advanced embedded control and acquisition system powered by NI reconfigurable I/O (RIO) technology. CompactRIO combines a low-power-consumption, real-time embedded processor with a high-performance RIO FPGA chipset. The RIO core has built-in data transfer mechanisms to pass data to the embedded processor for real-time analysis, post processing, data logging, or communication to a networked host computer. CompactRIO provides direct hardware access to the I/O circuitry of each I/O module using LabVIEW FPGA I/O functions. Each I/O module includes built-in connectivity, signal conditioning, conversion circuitry (such as ADC or DAC), and an optional isolation barrier.

NI 985x

The NI 9853 is a CAN High-Speed I/O module for the CompactRIO platform. For information on the NI 9853 CAN module, refer to the NI 9853 Operating Instructions.

The NI 9852 is a CAN Low-Speed I/O module for the CompactRIO platform. For information on the NI 9852 CAN module, refer to the NI 9852 Operating Instructions.

For information on the software support for the NI 9853 and NI 9852 modules, refer to the LabVIEW FPGA help.