Microchip also provides a large selection of embedded Controller Area Network (CAN) solutions. It is widely known that CAN has become the de facto standard for high integrity serial communication in deeply embedded applications. CAN supports multiple topologies and can be made deterministic and fault-tolerant. Microchip offers a line of products to meet the needs of high performance embedded applications using the CAN protocol, including 8-bit PIC® microcontrollers with on-chip A/D converters, comparators, motor control PWMs, USART and Master I2C/SPI. Microchip’s Enhanced CAN module supports CAN 1.2, CAN 2.0A and CAN 2.0B protocols, DeviceNet data bytes filter, standard and extended data frames, 0-8 bytes data length, and six buffers programmable as receiver/transmit buffers. In addition, there are three modes of operation, specifically Mode 0 or Legacy mode, Mode 1 or Enhanced Legacy mode with DeviceNet support, and Mode 2 or FIFO mode with DeviceNet support. Finally, to get started designing with the K80 CAN family, the PIC18 Explorer Board can be used with the 64-pin PIC18F66K80 Plug-In Module (or PIM) and the CAN/LIN PICtail Plus Daughter Board for quick and easy prototyping, demonstration and/or development of CAN based applications. For more information on CAN communications with PIC® Microcontrollers, please visit www.microchip.com/CAN.