Anyone heard if Mchip is gonna include any sort of CAN support in their PIC«s.

Like Nationals COPCAN. I planned to use it two years ago but they blow my
project as they delivered a half year too late :( . That«s no way to get
customers...

Or can anyone recommend a dedicated CAN controller?

Philips has one. And also a nice stand alone CAN+I/O+D/A.

Are there more suggestions?

I have not yet tried any CAN but think CAN looks very good because the nice
priority and error arbitration and correction, which is most of it is
implemented in hardware. And it«s fast, long distance, and multi master.

BTW, on short distances i think CAN can be used as one pin interface...
(CAN use one bidirectional signal, normally implemented as differential
pair party line)

A lot of people has been working to transfer both CAN signals and power on
a twisted pair!
Anyone heard of they succeeded?

... Think  I«ll ask the CAN mailing list.

/Morgan
Morgan Olsson, MORGANS REGLERTEKNIK, Sweden, ph: +46 (0)414 70741; fax 70331
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