• CAN SLIO with your own protocol or with e.g. CANopen, DeviceNet, SDS, CAN Kingdom etc.
• Smart nodes with PID algorithms for controlling e.g. temperature, motors or valves.
• Data Acquisition via CAN. Add your favorite SPI/I2C ADC and collect data.
• Home Automation. Build smart nodes for turning ON/OFF lights, burglar systems etc.
• Add CAN simple in an existing system via e.g. SPI, RS-232 or your own way.
• Education. CANDIP/M162 offers a very low cost to learn CAN, we have many starter kits options.
• If you have a customer who want to see a prototype or even a ready product next week.
• Decentralized smart nodes for e.g. Robots.
• CAN monitor in an existing system. Add some Leds and you could monitor e.g valves etc.

• Standard 28 pin DIP board with 0.1" pins, so use a standard DIP28 carrier.
• Mechanical meassurements is 37*19mm. Max height is 15mm from chrystal to end of pin (no IC carrier/socket included).
• Needs only a 5VDC/28mA power source (plus max 70mA for CAN tranceiver*).
• Atmel AVR type ATMega162 working at 7.3728Mhz (other crystals at request).
• 16kbytes user FLASH, 1Kbytes user RAM and 512bytes user EEPROM.
• Up to 13 digital I/O points on DIP28 board, each capable to sink 20mA as outputs.
• SPI port for expansion.
• Two Interrupt lines availible for user functions (INT1 & INT2).
• SJA1000 CAN controller working at 16Mhz, which supports CAN2.0B.
• 82C251 High Speed CAN transceiver 1Mbit (ISO-11898).
• CAN controller can be interrupt driven (INT0).
• SP202 RS-232 transceiver from SIPEX which together with the AVR can send/receive up to 115kbit.
• MAX825M Reset circuit, the normal RESET and inverted RESET is on external pins.
• No interpreted software, it's programmed with compilers.
• Posibilities to implement higher level protocols, such as CANopen, DeviceNet etc.

* Current consumption for CAN tranceiver variates depending how many nodes that are attached, but should be dimensioned for 70mA.