CAN Front Panel

By admin, December 6, 2014

Improved amplifier front panel uses PIC18F microcontroller and CAN bus communications.

VFD front panel with CAN

Front panel with CAN link to BaseBoard/CoreBoard

Working for a SatCom company, I designed and prototyped new user interface hardware for the front panel of a line of modular SSPAs. The new design used CAN bus communications to link the front panel VFD and membrane keypad to the new ARM logic board hardware which I also developed.

CAN front panel with PIC18F

Front panel PCB with PIC microcontroller