Advantages and disadvantages of controller area network (CAN) bus

There are some important advantages of controller area network (CAN) bus are given below,

• It  support multi master and multicast features.
• The CAN bus has maximum length of 40 meters.
• The CAN provides the ability to work in different electrical environment.
• It has maximum length of 40 meters.
• The controller area network (CAN) reduces wiring since it is a distributed control and this ensures enhancing of the system performance.
• It has single serial bidirectional line to achieve half duplex communication.
• It has standard bus in distributed network.
• It  cost is low and lightweight network.
• It has automatic retransmission for message that lost attribution.

There are some important disadvantages of controller area network (CAN) bus are given below,

• It has high software expenditure.
• Undesirable interaction more probable.

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