+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.