Uwe Vogt, UV Software

Running CAN and CAN FD on Mac

Running CAN and CAN FD on Mac is the mission of the MacCAN project. There are many companies offering multifarious CAN hardware and CAN software. Unfortunately, few of them provide a driver for the Mac.

UV Software provides macOS® user-space drivers for USB-to-CAN interfaces from various vendors.

PCAN-USB Interfaces from PEAK-System

PEAK-System is a leading provider of hardware, software, and services for the mobile and industrial communication sector with emphasis on the field buses CAN and LIN. A macOS® user-space driver for PCAN-USB Interfaces from PEAK-System is provided by UV Software.

PCBUSB-Library PCBUSB-Wrapper PCBUSB-Monitor

TouCAN USB Interfaces from Rusoku

Rusoku Technologies is an innovative engineering team based in Lithuania, Europe. They offer CAN adapter at a reasonable price. Drivers and utilities for Windows® and Linux® are available as open-source. A macOS® user-space driver for TouCAN USB Interfaces from Rusoku is provided by UV Software.

MacCAN-TouCAN Driver MacCAN-TouCAN Wrapper RusokuCAN.swift

USB CAN Interfaces from Kvaser

The Swedish company Kvaser AB supplies advanced CAN solutions to engineers designing and deploying systems for manifold areas of applications. They offer a wide range of CAN hardware and CAN software. A macOS® user-space driver for USB CAN Interfaces from Kvaser is provided by UV Software.

MacCAN-KvaserCAN Driver MacCAN-KvaserCAN Wrapper SwiftCAN-KvaserCAN

CAN Interface API by UV Software

CAN API V3 is a wrapper specification by UV Software to have a uniform CAN Interface API for various CAN interfaces from different vendors running under multiple operating systems. The macOS® driver libraries come with a CAN API V3 compatible API in the SDK, or alternatively wrapper libraries are available as separate SDKs for macOS® as well as for Windows®.

CANAPI-Docs MacCAN-Library MacCAN-Monitor


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