Le vendredi 3 janvier 2014 18:55:34 UTC+1, Michael Cummins a écrit :
 

> What does the CANBUS Cape offer beyond what the BBB can already do?
>

CAN bus need a transceiver to be connected to the physical layer. This 
device transform the CAN Rx / Tx signals of the BBB into CAN low and CAN 
High.
 See for example : ISO 1050 - ISOLATED CAN 
TRANSCEIVER<http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/slls983h/slls983h.pdf> 

The CAN cape contains this kind of component and an EEPROM that 
automatically set the right ports in the CAN mode.

You could build your own cape with a different transceiver (with 2 
supplies: 5 or 12v for the CAN bus side and 3.3v for the BBB side) and 
configure yourself the BBB with the appropriate device tree: Enable CANBus 
on the BeagleBone 
Black<http://www.embedded-things.com/bbb/enable-canbus-on-the-beaglebone-black/>

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