Free CAN Emulator (req)

Dec 17, 2013 3 Replies

Hello Dears



can anyone know a Free CAN Emulator HW & SW out there?



i'm trying to develop a small CAN interface so we can connect it to do some temeetry using a Cellular GSM module, but i need first debug my CAN interptreter.


thanks in advance.


The least expensive would probably be a dev board with CAN peripheral, something like this: also available from Note: I haven't used this particular board but I do use other Olimex dev boards and STM32F Cortex-M chips, so I'd presume that it would work okay. It appears that it uses the open source Maple environment, so your compiler setup should be cheap and (relatively) easy.

I use a PEAK CAN/USB

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also available from
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for general sniffing and poking at CAN busses. Not free but reliable and comes with DLLs and Linux drivers to integrate with your own code.

ome temeetry using a Cellular GSM module, but i need first debug my CAN int erptreter.

Thanks, i will give to it a try !!!

You might also have a look at our ELM329 integrated circuit. Although you would need to build it into a circuit to use it, the interface is a very simple one - serial based with ascii characters. See

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Jim Nagy Elm Electronics

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