CANopen.nl

All about CAN, CAN FD, CAN XL and CANopen

Welcome to CANopen.nl

This website is entirely dedicated to the technical background of CAN bus—including CAN FD and CAN XL—as well as CANopen. Through a series of articles, we explain the architecture and all the technical details of all various CAN bus variants and the CANopen communication protocol.

CAN – CAN Classic / CAN 2.0A

Discover the technology behind the CAN protocol. CAN Classic – formerly CAN 2.0 – forms the basis of all CAN protocols, including CAN FD and CAN XL.

CAN Classic

CAN – Flexibel Data rate

Find out about the technology behind the CAN FD protocol, the successor to CAN Classic, which offers higher data rates and more data bytes for increased data transfer.

CAN FD

CAN XL – CAN Extra Long

Get all to know about CAN XL, the extension to CAN FD that enables Ethernet-level speeds and much larger data packages, allowing for the transmission of Ethernet frames.

CAN XL

CANopen – Industrial CAN stack

Get to know CANopen, a CAN-based communication protocol for use in automation technology and standard device control.

CANopen

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