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Controller Area Network
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Author: Konrad Etschberger
List Price: $80.00
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ISBN: 3000073760
Publisher: IXXAT Automation GmbH (22 August, 2001)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 156,012
Average Customer Rating: 3 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
Not great, but no other choices.
This book contains some good introductory information on CAN,
but it is hurt by poor readability. The book was originally
written in German, and the translation to English is lacking.
You can usually figure out what is meant, but some chapters are
tough going. [usage hints to editor: "e.g." should only be
used parenthetically]The main reason I bought the book was for the chapter on
DeviceNet, and I was disappointed in the treatment of
DeviceNet. I found the descriptions of DeviceNet frames were
often confusing. If the book contained just _one_ example
message for each type, it would have answered so many questions
that I haven't been able to figure out after re-reading the
text several times. What would have been wonderful would have been an example
"session" that included connection setup and data exchange
messages, but the DeviceNet chapter only contains examples of a
small subset of the message types. After paying $80, I felt a little ripped-off, but it's the only
thing I could find that covered DeviceNet at all. The
introductory CAN info was OK, but it is available elsewhere in
better prose for much less money. Sure, there are probably grammatical errors in this review, but
you didn't pay $80 for it...
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