I'm in the middle of a CAN project myself. I have Microchip's CANalyzer....
it's a less then perfectly polished device, but for the ~$100 US they
charge... not a bad tool. It was very useful early when I only had one of
my CAN nodes communicating and I could generate packets with it. Now I
mostly use it's logging features and pull the data into Excel to filter and
sort.

The other tool I must recommend is Salae Logic http://www.saleae.com/logic =
They
have a couple versions, but the cheaper one is an eight channel logic
analyzer that does bus traffic decoding for most of the serial protocols
(including CAN) for ~$150 US. Definitely a useful tool for me.

-Denny


On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Kardasinski, Milosz <
Milosz.Kardasinski@analog.com> wrote:

> I have a pet project which involves reverse engineering frames on an
> automotive CAN bus, looking for data from/to a specific module. Google
> searching for an affordable CAN bus analyzer tool, returned one made by
> Microchip. Does anyone have any experience with this tool? Or can recomme=
nd
> another brand. I will be working with the J1939 bus standard.
>
> MK.
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