Controller Area Network (CAN) bus was developed in the early 1980s as an internal automobile network capable of linking sensors and actuators. CAN busses comprehensive error-checking, non-destructive bus arbitration and general robustness as a communication protocol has led to its adoption in many other areas such as elevators, trucks, robotics, airplane, production devices etc. 

Kvaser CANlib 

Kvaser offers a complete product range of CAN interfaces for PCs. The included CANlib Software Development Kit offers everything you need to develop your own software applications. The common CANlib APIet and the many program samples, written in C, C++, Delphi, Visual Basic, C#, make it easy to get started and simplifies the work . Whether it is the integration of Higher Layer Protocols such as J1939 or CANopen or complete CAN node design services. 

CANking 

When a CAN-bus system is constructed, it is very important to be able to connect to the buss in order to listen to the traffic, as well as to send messages on the bus for manipulation and testing. 

Kvaser CANking is a program for listening and manipulating the CAN bus via Kvaser interface. CANking is especially adapted for interactive development project. One can simply send CAN message and study their effects on the receiver units. Kvaser CANking is free and included and is supported by all Kvaser's products. Simply install and get started. 

Memorator 

The Kvaser Memorator Professional is the perfect tool to capture irregular faults in the field or perform remote diagnosis. Various criterions to start trigger logging, pre and post logging settings etc. A great advantage is that all configurations are made with a user-friendly configuration program and are stored on the flash disk. It makes it both easy and convenient to set configurations with the PC and download it to Kvaser Memorator Professional for use in the field. When logging is not longer needed to be performed, the Memorator works as a regular CAN interface. 

General 

Various third-party CAN-buss analysis software support Kvaser hardware. 

With comprehensive set of drivers from Win CE to Linux, see each product datasheet respectively.