What Are the Vehicle Multiprotocol Interface Devices?

Issue Details

• What is the Vehicle Multiprotocol Interface?
• What solutions does National Instruments have?

Solution

Vehicle Multiprotocol Interface

Vehicle Multiprotocol Interface provides a hardware-selectable controller area network (CAN) and/or local interconnect network (LIN) interface for developing applications with the NI-XNET driver on CompactDAQ or CompactRIO.

It also uses hardware-selectable NI-XNET Transceiver Cables (TRC) to communicate High-Speed/Flexible Data‑rate CAN, Low-Speed/Fault/Tolerant CAN, and/or LIN. Vehicle Multiprotocol Interface Modules work well in applications such as hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation, rapid control prototyping, bus monitoring, and automation control.

 

Transceiver Cable (TRC)

 
Enables connections between the NI-XNET host ports and the vehicle communication bus (CAN or LIN).

• TRC-8542 (FD-, HS-CAN)
• TRC-8543 (FD-, HS-, LS/FT-CAN)
• TRC-8546 (LIN)

 

NI-XNET Hardware Selectable Interface

 
The following National Instruments devices NI-XNET Hardware-Selectable Interface Ports for connecting to NI-XNET CAN/LIN Transceiver Cables (required to connect to the CAN/LIN bus).
 

Devices	Ports	Exernal Power
NI-9860	2	9-30V
sbRIO-9860	2	9-30V
PXIe-8510	2 or 6	X
PCIe-8510	2 or 4
cDAQ-9134	1
cDAQ-9135	1