can using labview

[einton]

Hi guys , guys i m new to labview , i tntended to use labview in my CONTROLLER AREA NETWORK project, In project i atleast want to communicate 5  to 6 nodes using can protocol, attached to different sensors and central node is connected to the lcd, guys please help me, please tell how can i go towards  that ,i atleast want to demonstrate can protocol, please help. 

[Justin_E]

Hello,

There are two parts to this, software and hardware. For hardware, we have a number of devices capable of communicating across a CAN bus. Check out our available CAN devices here to see which would best suit your application : http://www.ni.com/can/

For software, we provide an NI-CAN driver that works with all our CAN cards. This driver allows you to perform various functions in both Channel and Frame APIs. A good starting point for looking at the VIs that come with our NI-CAN driver, as well as getting some information on the hardware is the NI-CAN Hardware and Software Manual

Once you have the driver installed, there are a number of examples in LabVIEW that you can look at to see how CAN communication is set up in LabVIEW. 

[einton]

thanx justin , dear i m working on can products using microchip, which i had to ship from other place, another problem is this that can to rs232 terminal is not also available on my place abd it is also so much costtly with shipping charges , so im thinking of transferring can data using max232 or serial communication u please tell me can i transfer data serially and use there as modelling of can nodes .  

[Justin_E]

I don't believe we have anything that allows you to model a CAN node using serial communication. You won't be able to use the NI-CAN driver with a COM port either, so I'm not sure how far you'll be able to get using this method.