CAN(Controller Area Network) is a serial communication protocol with a very high level of security. It is an especially suit to distributed real-time system control and monitor, such as industrial machine control, aircraft engines, factory automation, medical equipment, building automation, remote data acquisition and control, environment monitor, etc. ICP DAS provides CAN library of PISO-CAN200/400 for NI LabVIEW 7.1. This library can help users to establish the connection with CAN network system easily and reduce the development time. The general application architecture is depicted as the following figure:

Features of LabVIEW CAN Library :

• Support CAN specific 2.0A and 2.0B
• Predefine 8 kinds of CAN baud rate: 10K, 20K, 50K, 125K, 250K, 500K, 800K and 1M bps.
• Allow user-defined CAN baud rate
• The range of sampling rate is from 50Hz to 5000Hz
• The library is easy to use
• Support English and German
• LabVIEW environment: version 7.1
• OS environment: Windows 2000 / XP