A lightweight wrapper for PCAN Basic API. This wrapper has been tested against version PCAN Basic API V4.10.1.968 with Peak Driver 8.20.0 (Linux), 4.6.4 (Windows x86/x64) and is meant to be used with PEAK-Systems USB CAN dongles.
This project includes code for event driven read on linux rt from the LinuxRT-IPC project, licensed under Apache License 2.0.
The vipm folder contains a VIPM package with the VIs necessary to interface the driver from LabVIEW.
It creates a PCAN Basic palette under Instrument I/O.
- LabVIEW 2020
- (Optional) LUnit Test Framework – GitHub Repository
- Download PCAN Basic for Linux
- Copy peak-linux-driver-8.20.0.tar.gz to /home/lvuser/ on real-time target using a FTP client or Webdav
- Enter following commands in terminal to build and install pcan linux driver on NI-RT Linux:
cd /home/lvuser
tar -xzf peak-linux-driver-8.20.0.tar.gz
cd peak-linux-driver-8.20.0
make clean
make
sudo make install
sudo mkdir -p /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc
sudo cp $(find /lib/modules/ -name "pcan.ko" | head -n 1) /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/
sudo find /lib/modules/ -name "pcan.ko" ! -path "/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/*" -exec rm {} \;
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe pcan
Note: Errors will appear during build. They arise from missing g++ on NI-RT Linux. You can ignore these.
- Install PCAN Driver 4.6.4 for Windows
- Download PCAN Basic API 4 for Windows
- From PCAN-Basic_4x.zip copy
x86/PCANBasic.dllto/Windows/SysWOW64 - From PCAN-Basic_4x.zip copy
x64/PCANBasic.dllto/Windows/System32
