Hardware

Hardware Specifications

• Compliant with PCI 2.3
• The board fits in both 3.3V PCI-X and 3.3V and 5V PCI busses
• Fully software compatible with the discontinued PCIcan II boards
• On-board 16-bit microcontroller
• Dimensions 120 x 95 mm (approx. 4.5 x 4 in.)
• Communicates with the PC through a fast DPRAM
• Quick and easy plug-and-play installation - no switches.
• CAN Controller: Renesas M16C
• Supports CAN 2.0 A and 2.0 B (active)
• High-speed ISO 11898 compliant driver circuits, supports bit rates up to 1 Mbit/s
• Industry-standard 9-pin D-SUB connectors
• Pin assignment according to CiA-DS102
• CAN oscillator frequency: 16 MHz
• Optoisolated driver circuits with fast optocouplers
• The Kvaser PCIcanx II family boards can optionally be delivered with exchangeable CAN drivers, supporting e.g. single-wire CAN.

Software

Software and Documentation

Documentation, software and drivers can be downloaded for free from www.kvaser.com. Updates of the software are regularly posted on the web. The following free software is available for the Kvaser PCIcanx II family:

• Driver support for Windows Vista/2003/XP/Win2k, Windows 98/ME, Windows NT 4.0 and Linux.
• Kvaser CANLIB SDK, which includes everything you need to develop software for the Kvaser CAN boards. Includes full documentation and many program samples, written in C, C++, Delphi, Visual Basic, and C#. 
• All Kvaser CAN interface boards share a common software API. Programs written for one board type will run without modifications on the other board types!
• J2534 Application Programming Interface
• RP1210A Application Programming Interface
• Kvaser CanKing, a general-purpose interactive CAN bus monitor.

Application Support

• AFT MARC I™
• ATI CANLab™ Network Analysis
• ATI VISION™ Calibration and Data Acquisition
• Ficosa CANica™
• Influx  Module Analyzer™
• Kvaser CanKing™
• National Instruments DIAdem™
• National Instruments LabView™
• Port CANopen Configuration™
• PPE PCMSCAN™
• TKE CANtrace™
• TKE CANopen Configuration™
• VAT 2000™
• Warwick X-Analyser™
• Xtm 

Software Platform

• Windows Vista
• Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003
• Windows 98/ME
• Windows NT4
• Linux