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A New Standard in Testing Automobiles

As of 2008, every car sold in America will be required to have a low cost controller area network (CAN) to link all the components of an automobile. Reading the data off the vehicle for diagnostic or test purposes will require a CAN device that interfaces the car with the computer.

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Published Sep 27 2007, 06:21 AM by Terry Knight
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    chengalva sitapati rao said:

    Excellent job

    October 2, 2007 8:52 AM
     

    dlepsch@embarqmail.com said:

    I want to buy the CAN to USB converter and the labview program

    that displays the parmeters.

    Don Lepsch

    October 3, 2007 2:44 PM
     

    Paul Mandeltort said:

    Don, you can get the USB CAN interface and the automotive diagnostic command set from http://ni.com/can.  The interface we're using in this video is the USB-8473.

    The demo code is located here:

    http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/epd/p/id/5411

    --Paul

    October 17, 2007 2:56 PM
     

    Wr said:

    Great job.  Would like to see more and please provide sources, protocols, etc. so others can try testing also.

     Thanks.

    December 7, 2007 4:47 PM

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