The CAN-8423 (i-8421) main control unit is specially designed for the slave device of CANopen protocol. It follows the CANopen Spec DS-301 V4.01 and DSP-401 V2.1, and supplies and supplies many features for users, such as dynamic PDO, EMCY object, error output value, SYNC cyclic and acyclic, …and etc.

For flexible Data Acquisition, the CAN-8x23 has 1/2 slot(s) for I/O expansion which supports a wide variety of ICPDAS DI/AI/DO/AO slot modules. Users can choice DI/DO/AI/AO modules of i-87K series or i-8000 series to fit the customized practice applications (please check the supported module list in the User Manual) . In addition, we also provide utility tool to allow users to create the EDS file dynamically. The EDS file is based on CANopen SP306 and can be compatible with different CANopen master interfaces. The application architecture is as per the image below.