Looking for CAN bus for the littel MSP procs

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Hey All,

I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on adding a CAN bus to the MSP 430x2xx series?

Currently i’m building a system with the NXP 2129 and the 2368… but i’d like to consdir using the MSP430 series, but I need CAN communications.

Thanks,

Brett

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What about using Microchips MCP2515 CAN controller. You can connect it with MSP430 trough SPI. It’s cheap and available in TSSOP20 package.

If You need a built-in solution hopfully someone else could help.

br,

Blasie

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You could build a generic CAN-driver with bit-banging or using the

SPI or timer module to archieve an exact timing, but you are limited to

10kbit (with 4MHz CPU).

But if you could use an external chip, I recommend to use it (It is a horrible work).

Jan Erik