New TCAN6062 CAN XL transceiver delivers the highest bandwidth and largest payload of any CAN-based network while preserving the advantages of proven CAN protocols
What’s new?
Texas Instruments (TI) introduced the industry’s first commercially available CAN XL transceiver, designed to help industrial engineers keep pace with the growing data demands of modern networks. TI’s TCAN6062 Controller Area Network (CAN) extended data-field length (XL) transceiver supports payloads up to 2,048 bytes per frame and data rates as high as 20 Mbps, while ensuring that priority messages are delivered first and on time with the performance on which humanoid robots, industrial robots and human-machine interface (HMI) systems depend.
The TCAN6062’s backward compatibility with CAN flexible data rate (FD) and CAN signal improvement capability (SIC) operations enables seamless migration to CAN XL, allowing teams to evolve existing designs incrementally without requiring a full redesign. Additionally, the transceiver allows engineers to consolidate communication layers and use Ethernet in mixed-network architectures with Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) tunneling, enabling efficient transfers of diagnostics, sensor data, control traffic and over-the-air updates on a single network.
Why does it matter?
Industrial systems are generating and demanding more data than ever before, with applications requiring fast, deterministic communication to synchronize motion control, sensor feedback and diagnostic data. These applications have introduced new networking requirements, often leading engineers to accept system-level trade-offs to compensate for bandwidth constraints. TI’s TCAN6062 CAN XL transceiver bridges that gap, offering engineers a path to higher-bandwidth networks while maintaining the proven reliability CAN is known for.
The specification for CAN XL has been standardized for years, but TI is the first to deliver and bring the hardware that makes it possible to the mass market. By introducing the TCAN6062, TI is transforming the innovative protocol into a broadly available, ready-to-use solution that engineers can implement in their next-generation designs.
The TCAN6062 CAN XL transceiver’s SIC helps reduce ringing by as much as 80% in complex networks, simplifying validation in high-node architectures. Combined with wide input/output voltage compatibility and protection up to ±58 V, the transceiver offers broad design flexibility across a range of industrial applications.
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As members of the CAN in Automation (CiA) technical group that developed International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 11898-2:2024, TI’s engineers helped shape the physical layer specification for CAN XL, ensuring the protocol was built to support the real-world demands of industrial applications.
The TCAN6062 represents the next generation of TI’s industry-leading CAN transceiver portfolio. Spanning CAN FD, CAN SIC and now CAN XL, TI offers a comprehensive range of solutions, giving engineers the flexibility to deliver more data faster, farther and more reliably.