PCAN-Light
PCAN-Light
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PCAN-Light

CAN Software API for Windows®


PCAN-Light is a software API (Application Programming Interface ) for Windows® 7/Vista/XP. PCAN-Light consists of the actual device driver, and an interface DLL which provides the API functions.

You can use the PCAN-Light API to create your own applications for communicating with the PCAN-PC hardware.

PCAN-Light API

PCAN-Light provides developers of C++, C#, Delphi, VB.NET, Java etc. with the following functions:

Logging on and off the device driver:

Init: Initializing hardware, setting the baud rate, logging on to drivers
Close: Logging out of drivers

CAN communication:

Write: Sending a CAN message (11/29-bit ID and RTR available)
Read: Reading a CAN message / status
ReadEx: Reading a CAN message or status inc. time stamp (new in Version 2.0)
SetRecvFunc: Event handling for incoming messages (new in Version 2.0)
ResetClient: Deleting the outgoing and ingoing buffer
MsgFilter: Registering messages to be received
ResetFilter: Resetting the CAN filter

Status information:

Status: Reading driver status information (data in buffer, overruns, error codes…)
VersionInfo: Information on the device drivers used (new in Version 2.0)
DLLVersionInfo: Reading the DLL information (new in Version 2.0)

Scope of supply

  • Interface DLLs, examples, and header files for all conventional programming languages
  • Documentation in HTML help format

System requirements

  • Windows® 7/Vista/XP (32/64-bit)
  • At least 512 MB RAM and 1 GHz CPU

Downloads

PCAN-Light for
Windows® 7/Vista/XP (32/64-bit)




CAN Software API for Linux

The PCAN-Linux device driver and a CAN software API for Linux can be downloaded free of charge from our website in tar.gz file format. More information is available at

http://www.peak-system.com/linux