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News Release from: Freescale Semiconductor | Subject: CAN reference design
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 07 August 2002
Reference design puts ColdFire in CAN
control
Designers of industrial and automotive systems using the CAN communication protocol can now reduce development times and overall system costs using a new reference design.
Designers of industrial and automotive systems using the controller area network (CAN) communication protocol can now reduce development times and overall system costs using the new CAN reference design from Motorola Based on a 32bit ColdFire Version 2 integrated microprocessor - the MCF5272 - this new tool employs the Ethernet local area network technology alongside CAN technology for distributed control applications used in industrial environments, such as textile equipment, paper processors and assembly plants
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The first in a series of application-specific reference designs based on Motorola's ColdFire architecture, the CAN reference design includes design schematics, an applications note and driver software available free for download to registered users from the Motorola website.
This overall package demonstrates Motorola's commitment to customers by delivering design resources that help make designing and developing embedded systems easier and more time- and cost-effective.
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"Design engineers working on systems for industrial control and process automation face a unique set of challenges in leveraging the latest technology for networking distributed systems", said Dr Franz Fink, general manager for Motorola's 32-Bit Embedded Controller Division.
"This is why Motorola is committed to providing design and development tools, such as reference designs, to ease customers' design of embedded systems and enable overall reduced costs and shortened time-to-market".
Based on the ColdFire MCF5272 integrated microprocessor, the reference design is built to enable customers to easily implement both Ethernet and CAN networking protocols in control and data acquisition applications.
The CAN/Ethernet reference design features: full schematics detailing the hardware design and software development; detailed applications note describing how to design a CAN controller daughter card that plugs in to the M5272C3 ColdFire evaluation platform; and initialisation and driver software.
This ColdFire microprocessor CAN/Ethernet reference design documentation and software is available now at no cost to registered users of Motorola's website.
The M5272C3 evaluation platform is available for purchase from Motorola and provides an excellent foundation on which to implement the free reference design.
The MCF5272 evaluation boards are shipped with a full suite of evaluation software from leading tool vendors.
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