FlexCAN is an embedded network architecture that extends

Controller Area Network A Controller Area Network (CAN bus) is a robust vehicle bus standard designed to allow microcontrollers and devices to communicate with each other's applications without a host computer. It is a message-based protocol, designed originally for mu ...

(CAN). It was designed by Dr. Juan Pimentel at

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. It was inspired by FlexRay and the need to provide more deterministic behavior over the CAN network. Its focus is on redundancy at the hardware level, and time-based prioritized communication at the protocol level.

Benefits of FlexCAN

FlexCAN is similar to CAN except for the following improvements: * Deterministic Behavior * Increased reliability

External links

FlexCAN: A Flexible Architecture for Highly Dependable Embedded Applications
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