COMfalcon® plus
Extremely flexible CAN interface with numerous interfaces and powerful PowerPC. Including LUA scripting and Linux operating system
Key Features
- 4× independent CAN interface
- WLAN interface
- RS232, RS422, RS485, K-Line
- Protocol handling
- Optional with data logging, scripting, CAN voltage level oscilloscope funcionality
- Optional with integrated SD card
- Compact housing with protection class IP65
Descriptions
Housing and status display
The interface has a robust aluminium housing with protection class IP65. Due to the compact design and the high shock resistance COMfalcon® plus can be used in different areas of the automation and automotive industry. Two 14-segment display and nine LEDs always indicate the current operating status/error code of the device.
Interfaces
The COMfalcon® plus has four independent CAN channels and a Freescale PowerPC architecture. With WLAN/LAN and optional Bluetooth a connection to a diagnostic device is established. For the diagnosis, besides the CAN interfaces, various other interfaces like RS232 or K-Line are available.
LUA Scripting
Own embedded applications run directly on the COMfalcon® plus in LUA without the need for a third device (laptop or PC). Among other things, it is possible to create and implement your own information such as flash routines or ECU descriptions and thus access the CAN or file system, for example.
Furthermore, the embedded applications are portable and reusable for future Sontheim VCI generations.
Error frame detection
This function enables the monitoring and observation of a CAN network. The COMfalcon® plus has its own logic to detect error frames and to count up in a certain internal memory area. This is used to identify intermittently occurring errors such as fake messages of a CAN participant.
ID related level measurement – resistance measurement/current measurement
This function allows to read the CAN level also IO related and to measure active and passive terminating resistors, e.g. for different diagnoses on a vehicle or a machine. This is especially important if the network can lose data caused by short circuits, for example.
Technical Data
| CPU | Freescale PowerPC |
| RAM | 64 MB |
| Memory | 4 GB (up to 32 GB) |
| CAN | 4× CAN interface acc. to ISO 11898 |
| Baud rates | 50 Kbit/s up to 1 Mbit/s |
| CAN Termination resistance measurement | Terminating resistor of the CAN network with active bus |
| CAN Port | 2× 7-pole M16 port (like Sontheim CANUSB) |
| RS232, K-Line | M12 5-Pin female connector |
| LAN | M12 4-pin female connector 10/100 Mbit LAN |
| WLAN | 1× acc. to IEEE 802.11b,g,n,d,e,i up to 65 Mbit/s |
| Bluetooth (optional) | 2.1+EDR, Power Class 1.5, BLE 4.0 and ANT |
| USB | USB 2.0 IF Connector, Typ A |
| 14-segment display | Boot information, K/L-line mode, RS-mode, measurement, error codes |
| LEDs | LAN Status LED, green and yellow Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Status LED, green and yellow 4× CAN Status LED, green and yellow RS232 / K-/L-Line Status LED, green and yellow |
| Dimensions (l×w×h) | 110 mm × 150 mm × 35 mm |
| Housing | Aluminium, Protection class IP65 |
| Storage temperature | –40°C up to +85°C |
| Operating temperature | –20°C up to +60°C |
| Supply | via CAN 12 V – 24 V |
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