Description

This reference design demonstrates a small form-factor Controller Access Network (CAN)-to-Ethernet converter using the TM4C129XNCZAD 32-bit ARM-M4F MCU. Supporting 10/100 Base-T compliant with IEEE 802.3 standard: this reference design is useful for industrial drives monitoring and control: as well as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. The same hardware can be used as a CAN-to-Ethernet gateway or bridge with simple changes in the firmware. The gateway application is useful for monitoring remote CAN networks over Ethernet: while the bridge application is useful for coupling CAN networks via the the internet or local area netowork (LAN).