Automotive CAN Transceivers

Initially, the CAN technology was invented to offer robust and scalable networks in the car. With faster data rates it turned out to be more difficult to keep this robustness. Developing complex networks with low data rates e.g., 500 kbit/s or 1 Mbit/s had been comparably easy. Faster networks using 2 Mbit/s or 5 Mbit/s data rate could be only realized in smaller and less complex networks.