ISO 11898-2:2024
Road vehicles - Controller area network (CAN) - Part 2: High-speed physical medium attachment (PMA) sublayer
This document specifies physical medium attachment (PMA) sublayers for the controller area network (CAN). This includes the high-speed (HS) PMA without and with low-power mode capability, without and with selective wake-up functionality. Additionally, this document specifies PMAs supporting the signal improvement capability (SIC) mode and the FAST mode in Annex A. The physical medium dependent (PMD) sublayer is not in the scope of this document.
This document specifies physical medium attachment (PMA) sublayers for the controller area network (CAN). This includes the high-speed (HS) PMA without and with low-power mode capability, without and with selective wake-up functionality. Additionally, this document specifies PMAs supporting the signal improvement capability (SIC) mode and the FAST mode in Annex A. The physical medium dependent (PMD) sublayer is not in the scope of this document.
ISO 11898-2:2016 specifies the high-speed physical media attachment (HS-PMA) of the controller area network (CAN), a serial communication protocol that supports distributed real-time control and multiplexing for use within road vehicles. This includes HS-PMAs without and with low-power mode capability as well as with selective wake-up functionality. The physical media dependant sublayer is not in the scope of this document.
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