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The PRESDIV field controls a prescaler that generates the Serial Clock (Sclock), whose
period defines the 'time quantum' used to compose the CAN waveform. A time quantum
is the atomic unit of time handled by the CAN engine.
f
Tq
=
f
CANCLK
(Prescaler Value)
A bit time is subdivided into three segments
2
(reference Figure 45-105 and Table
45-118):
• SYNC_SEG: This segment has a fixed length of one time quantum. Signal edges are
expected to happen within this section
• Time Segment 1: This segment includes the Propagation Segment and the Phase
Segment 1 of the CAN standard. It can be programmed by setting the PROPSEG and
the PSEG1 fields of the CTRL1 Register so that their sum (plus 2) is in the range of 4
to 16 time quanta
• Time Segment 2: This segment represents the Phase Segment 2 of the CAN standard.
It can be programmed by setting the PSEG2 field of the CTRL1 Register (plus 1) to
be 2 to 8 time quanta long
Bit Rate
=
f
Tq
(number of Time Quanta)
S Y N C _ S E G
Time Segment 2
2 ... 8
8 ... 25 Time Quanta
= 1 Bit Time
Sample Point
(single or triple sampling)
(PSEG2 + 1)
Transmit Point
Time Segment 1
1 4 ... 16
NRZ Signal
(PROP_SEG + PSEG1 + 2)
Figure 45-105. Segments within the Bit Time
2. For further explanation of the underlying concepts please refer to ISO/DIS 11519–1, Section 10.3. Reference also the
Bosch CAN 2.0A/B protocol specification dated September 1991 for bit timing.
Functional Description
K20 Sub-Family Reference Manual, Rev. 6, Nov 2011
1190 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.