Use AT90CAN128 CAN in ERIKA

[laranjos16]

Hi Everyone,

I'm new in the forum, and I'm thinking in use ERIKA for an automotive application. (Brake By Wire).
Is it possible to use Atmel AT90CAN128 in ERIKA using CAN???

Sorry for the bad English, is not my native language.

Best regards,
Bruno Santos

[paolo.gai]

Hi!

Thanks for your message! some time ago we did some initial support for AVR machines, mainly for their usage in sensor networks. The work was performed by Antonio Romano...

Some information is available at:
http://erika.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.p ... Atmel_AVR5

and also look at the documents on:
http://erika.tuxfamily.org/documentation.html

About CAN, there is no support for the CAN driver by Atmel. There are some simple drivers which uses the PIC30 (available in the MCU/microchip_dspic and contrib directories.

it should be not much work to support the chip... probably a little bit more for the CAN!

What are the tmings of your project?

Regards,

Paolo

[laranjos16]

Hi Paolo,

Thanks for the quick reply. The timing of my project (Master final work) is very limited (3 month).

I'm very interested by ERIKA, utilizing for the RTOS microcontrolers, however the low support for AVR5 processor is a problem to my project.

Best Regards
Bruno Laranjo

[paolo.gai]

well... "low support" means a limited number of CPUs. The basic things are working, there is not the availability of all he drivers for all platforms... but this is I guess a common situation everywhere.

there could be 2 possibilities:
- switch to another processor, where we do have CAN support (e.g., dsPIC)
- implement the support for the specific peripheral you need...

PJ