[[!meta title="OCERA Real-Time CAN"]]

What is this?
=============

A collection of [CAN][wp] related tools developed at
[Czech Technical University in Prague][ctu].
The development of these components started in frame
of IST-2001 35102 [OCERA][ocera] European project.
The components has been used all over the world in different
academic and production environments. For example, [[LinCAN|lincan]]
driver has been used by industry for more than 15 years
and some parts has been contributed to and or reused
by actual Linux kernel [SocketCAN][socketcan] subsystem.
The most of OrtCAN components can be used even with both driver
stacks and some have been tested even with [NuttX][nuttx] RTOS
suitable for smaller MCUs. 

The developed technologies are maintained mainly by [Department of Control Engineering][dce]
of [FEE][fel] faculty of [CTU][ctu] university. There is list
of CAN related works - projects, CAN benchmarking and diploma
thesis at [FEL CAN guidepost][fel-can] page.

Many related CAN bus, embededd GNU/Linux, real-time, motion
control and other open source components presnetations
and pointers can be found on [Open Technologies Research Education and Exchange Services][otrees]
[knowledge base][otrees-knowbase] pages.

The access to CAN bus requires supported hardware
interface. The project provides CAN device driver
for Linux and other embedded environments to gain
access to the network. The driver is named [[LinCAN|lincan]].

The common interface to access different CAN interfaces
and library to build higher level layers is implemented
in Virtual/Versatile CAN API library - [[libVCA|vca]].

Two GUI / Front End Tools for CAN bus monitoring
and interaction are part of the project. The first is
Java based [[CANmonitor|canmonitor]] with CAN/CANopen monitoring
and device access capabilities. The other is Qt based
CAN Bus Analyzer [[qCANanlyzer|qcanalyzer]].

## OrtCAN Build Instruction for Actual GIT Repository Sources 

To obtain and build sources of the latest development
version of former OCERA CAN components use

    git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/ortcan/ortcan-top
    cd ortcan-top/
    git submodule update --init
    make default-config
    make

The configuration options for the build can be specified
in "config.omk" file. For x86_64 build line bellow
has to be added into "config.omk" before final
make command 

    CFLAGS+=-fpic

to build loadable modules (shared libraries/DLLs) corectly.
For possible build options of included submodules read build
instructions for respective component - [[libVCA|vca]], [[LinCAN|lincan]] ...
The options can and should be combined in "config.omk" file
in toplevel directory.

The comprehensive documentation of the used build system
([OCERA Make system][omk]) can be found on the [homepage][omk]
of OMK project.

[wp]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controller_area_network
[rtime]:http://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/
[fel-can]:http://canbus.pages.fel.cvut.cz/
[dce]:http://control.fel.cvut.cz/
[fel]:http://fel.cvut.cz/
[ctu]:http://www.cvut.cz/
[ocera]:http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocera/
[omk]:http://rtime.felk.cvut.cz/omk/
[socketcan]:https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/can.html
[otrees]:https://gitlab.fel.cvut.cz/otrees
[otrees-knowbase]:https://gitlab.fel.cvut.cz/otrees/org/-/wikis/knowbase
[nuttx]:https://github.com/apache/nuttx

News
====
* 2023-03-10: Update links to actual alive related projects. For example open-source CAN FD IP core for FPGAs and ASICs, QEMU CAN and CAN FD emulation etc.

* 2012-06-24: The LinCAN GIT branch can-usb1 has been updated and contains Linux driver side and firmware for [[usbcan|lincan/usbcan]] LPC1768 based converter (porting done by Jiri Vanek).

* 2012-06-21: Java [[CANmonitor|canmonitor]] supports type conversion for OD access (enhancement by Petr Kubasta)

* 2012-05-16: CANopen OD access for [[QCANalyzer|qcanalyzer]] contributed by Ivan Fridrich

* 2010-09-06: New [[ikiwiki]]-based website.