Comparison of CANopen
Implementation Methods
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Available CANopen Implementation Methods
When developing a CANopen compliant node, companies are faced with a wide variety of implementation methods. There is no general rule in determining which method is best - that depends on a number of parameters.
Usually, a comparison of different methods and/or products of any sort trends to be biased according to the author's interest. However, for these web pages we truly tried to take a step back and do an unbiased, fair comparison.
We divided the comparison into Hardware Development and Software Development. Detailed comparisons are available here:
In short, the biggest benefits of CANopenIA are:
- Shortest development cycles, due to
- Simplified hardware development
- No software development required
- Lowest one-time/development cost, due to
- Minimal tool requirements (no code/software development)
- Best CANopen protocol performance, as
- Implementation is optimized for the CANopenIA chip