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Controller Area Network (CAN) Module
The Status Interrupt has the highest priority. Among the message interrupts, the message object's
interrupt priority decreases with increasing message number. A message interrupt is cleared by
clearing the message object's IntPnd bit. The Status Interrupt is cleared by reading the CAN Status
(CANSTS) register.
The interrupt identifier IntId in the CANINT register indicates the cause of the interrupt. When no
interrupt is pending, the register holds the value to 0. If the value of CANINT is different from 0, then
there is an interrupt pending. If the IE bit is set in the CANCTL register, the interrupt line to the CPU
is active. The interrupt line remains active until CANINT is 0, all interrupt sources have been cleared,
(the cause of the interrupt is reset), or until IE is reset, which disables interrupts from the CAN
controller.
The value 0x8000 in the CANINT register indicates that an interrupt is pending because the CAN
module has updated, but not necessarily changed, the CANSTS register (Error Interrupt or Status
Interrupt). This indicates that there is either a new Error Interrupt or a new Status Interrupt. A write
access can clear the RxOK, TxOK, and LEC flags in the CANSTS register, however, only a read
access to the CANSTS register will clear the source of the status interrupt.
IntId points to the pending message interrupt with the highest interrupt priority. The SIE bit in the
CANCTL register controls whether a change of the status register may cause an interrupt. The EIE
bit in the CANCTL register controls whether any interrupt from the CAN controller actually generates
an interrupt to the microcontroller's interrupt controller. The CANINT interrupt register is updated
even when the IE bit is set to zero.
There are two possibilities when handling the source of a message interrupt. The first is to read the
IntId bit in the CANINT interrupt register to determine the highest priority interrupt that is pending,
and the second is to read the CAN Message Interrupt Pending (CANMSGnINT) register to see
all of the message objects that have pending interrupts.
An interrupt service routine reading the message that is the source of the interrupt may read the
message and reset the message object's IntPnd at the same time by setting the ClrIntPnd bit
in the CAN IFn Command Mask (CANIFnCMSK) register. When the IntPnd bit is cleared, the
CANINT register will contain the message number for the next message object with a pending
interrupt.
14.4.13
Bit Timing Configuration Error Considerations
Even if minor errors in the configuration of the CAN bit timing do not result in immediate failure, the
performance of a CAN network can be reduced significantly. In many cases, the CAN bit
synchronization amends a faulty configuration of the CAN bit timing to such a degree that only
occasionally an error frame is generated. In the case of arbitration, however, when two or more
CAN nodes simultaneously try to transmit a frame, a misplaced sample point may cause one of the
transmitters to become error passive. The analysis of such sporadic errors requires a detailed
knowledge of the CAN bit synchronization inside a CAN node and of the CAN nodes' interaction on
the CAN bus.
14.4.14
Bit Time and Bit Rate
The CAN system supports bit rates in the range of lower than 1 Kbps up to 1000 Kbps. Each member
of the CAN network has its own clock generator. The timing parameter of the bit time can be
configured individually for each CAN node, creating a common bit rate even though the CAN nodes'
oscillator periods may be different.
Because of small variations in frequency caused by changes in temperature or voltage and by
deteriorating components, these oscillators are not absolutely stable. As long as the variations
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