If you spend enough time around CAN Bus and SAE J1939 discussions, you’ll eventually encounter a statement along these lines: “Why implement a J1939 stack in firmware when Linux already supports J1939?” It’s a fair question. Modern Linux kernels include native J1939 support as part of the SocketCAN framework, and…
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One of the more common questions when analyzing or simulating SAE J1939 traffic is surprisingly simple: “How accurate must a J1939 message frequency be?” If a message is supposed to be transmitted every 100 milliseconds, does that mean exactly 100 milliseconds? Can it be 101 milliseconds? 105 milliseconds? What happens…
