The First Commercial CAN XL Transceiver Targets Production Designs (Download)
As electronic technology gets more capable from a sensing perspective, engineers find themselves needing to move more data through communication networks. Automotive and humanoid robots, for example, are generating substantial data for motion control, sensor fusion, diagnostics, and software — more data than traditional Controller Area Network (CAN) technologies were designed to handle.
CAN has been fundamental to automotive and industrial networking for more than 35 years. It has evolved from classic CAN to CAN FD (CAN Flexible Data-Rate) and now CAN XL (CAN Extended Data-field Length), reflecting the growing demands of modern systems, including higher-complexity sensing and actuation, larger software payloads, and greater security requirements.
