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Unread 09-08-2013, 09:28
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Re: NI Week Athena Announcement and Q&A Panel

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Originally Posted by DonRotolo View Post
The current Jaguar CAN has us daisy-chaining network nodes, so if one drops the network, everything beyond it becomes unreachable.
This statement misleading.

The CAN signals are hard wired from connector to connector on the Jaguar PCB. Even if the Jaguar loses power, other Jags on the network will be unaffected.

However, if the CAN cabling is physically disconnected, then yes, every Jag after that will be unreachable.

Edit:
James beat me to it

He's also correct about the Black Jag when it is the serial bridge:

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Originally Posted by otherguy View Post
It doesn't apply to a black jag which is being used as a serial bridge. If that one loses power/communications... then you lose your conduit through which to communicate to the CAN bus. There's no way around that besides using something like the 2CAN.

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