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CAN stands for Controller Area Network, it is defined in ISO-Standard 11898, often used in automotive environments. It acts as a nervous system inside the vehicle for enabling communication between all ECUs(Electronic Control Unit) with each other…

With BSVI (Bharath Stage 6 – BS6), On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) has become popular among the masses. More and more people have started to recognize and understand the role of electronics in automobiles. Vehicle diagnostics opens up a plethora of…

Most of the time we associate Vehicle Diagnostics to OBD-II which is a certification requirement and the possibilities are extremely limited. But Vehicle Diagnostics opens up an entire lot of automotive testing possibilities. The following are the uses…

  Vehicle Diagnostics is like speaking to a vehicle, more precisely commanding. If you give the vehicle the right command in the right manner, it will respond back. Note that diagnostics is always request-response. It is not like CAN messages which are…

There is a common confusion between CAN and diagnostics and this article is an attempt to clarify and bring an understanding of differences between CAN & diagnostics. Background:  Both CAN and diagnostics are used to read messages/data from ECUs,…