CANServer turns a local CAN bus into a network resource: multiple engineers and client applications can connect to it remotely for diagnostics, debugging, monitoring, and calibration of electronic control units.
When developing and operating electronic systems, engineers regularly need access to the CAN bus: to monitor messages, check a control unit’s response, send commands, perform configuration, or carry out calibration.
However, the equipment may be located on a test bench, in another laboratory, at a production site, in field testing, or at a remote facility. As a result, a simple engineering task can turn into a site visit, equipment transfer, manual adapter connection, or dependence on an on-site specialist.
CANServer solves this problem by connecting the CAN bus to an Ethernet network and providing remote access to it over TCP/IP.
CANServer is installed on a server, industrial computer, workstation, or virtual machine that has access to a hardware CAN interface.
The software receives messages from the CAN bus and forwards them to all connected clients over TCP/IP. In the opposite direction, CANServer receives data from TCP/IP clients and translates it back to the CAN bus.
This allows engineering applications to work with a remote CAN network as if they were connected to it locally.
10 MBits/s
256 MB
Frequently Asked Questions
CANServer is software that bridges data between a CAN bus and an Ethernet network using TCP/IP.
Yes. The software receives data from TCP/IP clients and forwards it to the CAN bus.
For remote diagnostics, debugging, monitoring, configuration, and calibration of electronic control units.
Yes. CANServer supports multiple remote clients connected to the same CAN network.
PeakCAN, VsCOM & Linux CAN.
The server side runs on Linux systems and Windows 7+, while client machines can use either Windows or Linux.
