Hello all, I apologize in advance if this has been discussed up before. Searching for CAN isn't very productive because every instance of 'can' shows up as well. Controller Area Network is the long form name but it doesn't seem to have been mentioned on this board. I have a USB-6216 BNC DAQ card. I'm interested in reading CAN data from a MoTec data logger onto it. National Instruments has a series of white papers on CAN but they focus on their NI CAN hardware family, like these USB units. Is there a reason why I can't run CAN data into my multifunction DAQ (USB-6216 BNC)? It's just digital data and I believe the sample rates should be adequate, especially as I can run my CAN network at a variety of speeds. I'm almost tempted to try to build a CAN reading program using digital DAQmx tasks just to see if it would work. But I wanted to check with this board first to see if there was something I'm missing because no one seems to have tried this before. Regards,

Of course they won't run. Completely different hardware and drivers.Your card has software timing only so you have no 'sample rate'. The best you can expect is no more than 1 kHz with considerable jitter from the os. You don't see any posts on the subject because people choose the right hardware for this. That really is a simple solution.

Multifunction DAQ

Reading CAN data with USB-6216?

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Were you ever able to make the connection? I'd like to talk directly if you were. I need to extract data from a Motec system with a PCI-8513, and digging though 1300 pages of XNET documentation is daunting. I need this to work now.