Will separate devicenet and CAN cards work in one machine?

[lars]

I have an application that must talk to CAN and DeviceNet at the same time. NI's documentation says that DNET must be removed to run NI-CAN and vice versa. Will they play together if two cards are installed?

[Chad_Pelletier]

Currently, NI-CAN and NI-DNET cannot be installed on the same machine at the same time, regardless of the number of cards that are installed in the machine.

However, with some work, it is theoretically possible to install only NI-CAN, implement the CAN interface as normal, then, since the DNET protocol is built on CAN, use NI-CAN to implement DeviceNet functionality on another card.

Chad Pelletier
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
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[lars]

This answer stops a little short. Some elaboration on how to implement Devicenet over CAN would help (Web site, document, book, etc.) would help a lot.