As of yet these are not it production.  You should talk to your local microchip
representative, if they are close they may send you some pre-production parts.

For now I would either choose a different micro which has CAN built in, or get a
PIC and Microchip's stand-alone CAN interface chip.

-Adam

Dan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am part of a project group from the University of Exeter
> (UK) researching the use of CAN in marine applications.  We
> would like to impliment our project if possible with a PIC
> that supports the CAN protocol, rather than a seperate CAN
> controller such as the MCP2510. We have been told that the
> PIC18C658 and PIC18C858 support CAN, but we can't get any
> info on them, data sheets etc.  Does anyone know if either
> of these (or any others) are actually available yet.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan Burgess
>
> University of Exeter