TI advances next-generation industrial systems with the first commercially available CAN XL transceiver

Texas Instruments introduced the industry’s first commercially available CAN XL transceiver, designed to help industrial engineers keep pace with the growing data demands of modern networks. TI’s TCAN6062 Controller Area Network (CAN) extended data-field length (XL) transceiver supports payloads up to 2,048 bytes per frame and data rates as high as 20Mbps, while ensuring that priority messages are delivered first and on time with the performance on which humanoid robots, industrial robots and human-machine interface (HMI) systems depend.

The TCAN6062’s backward compatibility with CAN flexible data rate (FD) and CAN signal improvement capability (SIC) operations enables seamless migration to CAN XL, allowing teams to evolve existing designs incrementally without requiring a full redesign. Additionally, the transceiver allows engineers to consolidate communication layers and use Ethernet in mixed-network architectures with Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) tunneling, enabling efficient transfers of diagnostics, sensor data, control traffic and over-the-air updates on a single network (more info).

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