What Are the Vehicle Multiprotocol Interface Devices?

Updated Nov 30, 2023

Reported In

Hardware

  • NI-9860
  • sbRIO-9860
  • PXIe-8510
  • PCIe-8510
  • cDAQ-9134
  • cDAQ-9135
  • TRC-8542
  • TRC-8543
  • TRC-8546

Driver

  • NI-XNET

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.

 
 
NI-XNET Hardware-Selectable Interface Port Connector

 

Transceiver Cable (TRC)

 

NI-XNET CAN/LIN Transceiver Cable

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

NI-XNET Hardware Selectable Interface

 

NI-XNET Hardware-Selectable Interface Port

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).
 
DevicesPortsExernal Power
NI-986029-30V
sbRIO-986029-30V
PXIe-85102 or 6X
PCIe-85102 or 4
cDAQ-91341
cDAQ-91351