ISO15765 - DoCAN Protocol

DoCAN Overview

ISO 15765 (ISO-TP or DoCAN) is an international standard for sending data packets over a CAN-Bus that exceed the eight byte maximum payload of CAN frames. ISO-TP segments longer messages into multiple frames, adding metadata that allows the interpretation of individual frames and reassembly into a complete message packet by the recipient allowing up to 4GB of transfers.

Embien offers its implementation of the protocol via the RAPIDSEA DoCAN stack. Some of the major features of the stack are

  • Support for both SF, FF, CF and FC

  • Support for various timing configuration

  • Multi-message filtering

  • Up to 4095 bytes transfer support

  • MISRA-C compliant ANSI C source code

  • Can be used with or without RTOS

  • Can support 8, 16, 32, 64-bit CPUs

As captured in the below diagram, the DoCAN stack is typically accessed by the higher level application stack like UDS and this in-turn calls the lower level CAN HAL.

DoCAN Stack in UDS

Using DoCAN

This section covers the details of how to use the DoCAN stack. Essentially the DoCAN is responsible for framing of packets and de-framing of packets of large messages over smaller CAN frames. It employs frames such as SingleFrame (SF), FirstFrame(FF), ConsecutiveFrame(CF) and FlowControl(FC) packets to manage the message flow.

As it is message oriented, the RAPIDSEA DoCAN stack has to be provided with the buffers during initialization. The size of the buffers can be determined by the user based on their application requirement. For example, if 4096 message size has to be supported, each of the buffer must be of at least this size plus a few more.

When the higher level application layer wants to transfer a message, it should first request one from the DoCAN layer, fill it with data and queue it for transmission. Then the DoCAN stack sends the message over one or more frames and informs the caller of the status of the transfer. Similarly when an incoming message is received, DoCAN consolidates it over multiple frames in a single message and provides it to the application layer as a single message.

The below table captures the function that are to be called from the application logic.

API Functions

Function

Description

rs_iso15765_open

To initialize the ISO15765 DoCAN stack

rs_iso15765_set_tx_msg_buf

To assign buffers for transmission

rs_iso15765_set_rx_msg_buf

To assign buffers for reception

rs_iso15765_release_transmit_msg

To release the transmit buffer of DoCAN message

rs_iso15765_rx_buffer_handled

To indicate successful processing of received message

rs_iso15765_register_callback

Registers callback function to be called on events

rs_iso15765_process

To be periodically called for internal processing

rs_iso15765_close

To free the DoCAN handle

The details of these functions are covered in the below sections.

The application logic should call the rs_can_init function and use the returned handle when initializing the DoCAN stack.

The below table captures the function that are called from the DoCAN Stack.

Called Functions

Function

Description

rs_can_register_callback

Registers the ISO15765 DoCAN stack call back with the CAN layer

rs_can_get_transmit_buf

To get CAN buffers for transmission

rs_can_transmit

To transmit CAN buffers

More details of these CAN related functions are available in the CAN Interface page.

The below diagram captures the high level sequence of operations associated with the DoCAN stack.

DoCAN Sequence Diagram

Refer to the ISO14229 - UDS Protocol page for an example about how the RAPIDSEA UDS stack uses the DoCAN.

Dependency

This stack depends on the below RAPIDSEA interfaces that can be obtained or custom implemented.

DoCAN Header Details

Documentation from the relevant header as follows:

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