CAN is the most widespread communication protocol in today's automotive
industry. The latest technology, FlexRay has already become widespread as fault
tolerant applications are expected in the industrial area. Gateway devices provide the
transition through the different kinds of bus systems. This Thesis aims to develop a
hardware device like those.
The first three chapters cover the presentation of the most widespread
communication system types including CAN, LIN and FlexRay and their comparison at
the aspect of the gateway hardware have to be implemented. The Thesis contains the
detailed overview of the development process. It begins with the choice of
microcontroller architecture and the appropriate device. This part is followed by the
selection of integrated circuits provide power supply, and bus transceivers for CAN and
FlexRay.
Then there is a brief description of applied CAD system followed by the
components' intake to its library manager. After that the detailed description of
schematic can be found, which is followed by presentation of PCB's topology and layer
stack-up. The strict constraints in routing some critical integrated circuits are also
detailed there.
At the end there are some chapters about the first powering up the device
followed by the future aims and fields of application which can be performed by further
development of firmware and software.