- Is a high-integrity serial data communications bus for real-time control applications
- Operates at data rates of up to 1 Mega bits per second
- Has excellent error detection and confinement capabilities
- Was originally developed for use in cars
- Is now being used in many other industrial automation and control applications
- Has an OSI session layer known as Time Triggered CAN (TTCAN)
- Has a sub-bus known as the Local Interconnect Network (LIN)
- CAN is documented in ISO 11898 (for applications up to 1 Mega bits per second) and ISO 11519 (for applications up to 125 K bits per second)
| * History of CAN | * How CAN works | * Error handling | * Timing & synchronisation |
| * Implementing CAN | * CAN Application Layers |