At the General Assembly of the CAN in Automation (CiA) nonprofit association the active board of directors has been confirmed: Magnus Hell (Infineon), Christian Schlegel (chs consulting), and Holger Zeltwanger (CiA Managing Director). Robert Bosch, esd electronics, emotas, MicroControl, and Texas Instruments were elected as the Technical Committee, chaired by Magnus Hell. esd electronics, emotas embedded communication, MicroControl, Texas Instruments, and Vector have voting rights in the Business Committee, chaired by Christian Schlegel.
The General Assembly took place during the two-days event "CiA Member Days" in Freising. The technical presentations on this event included such topics as "CAN and artificial intelligence," "CAN XL," "CANsec," "Ethernetification of CAN," and "48-V supply systems." Presentation slides are available for members to download from the CiA website.
Next year's General Assembly will take place on March 5 in Tutzing on Lake Starnberg (Germany), as part of the 19th international CAN Conference (iCC). This day also marks the 35th anniversary of the international CAN user association, which currently has over 700 members. CAN (Controller Area Network), first introduced in February 1986, is one of the most successful serial communication systems, with around four billion newly installed nodes per year. This number continues to grow.
