Hi, I'm pretty new to microcontrollers, but for a project, I need one microcontroller that can send back data to a server over ethernet while also being able to communicate with multiple other microcontrollers that are controlling their own subunits and which can send sensor or status info back to this ethernet controller.
We're using CAN for the microcontroller communication, and it looks like this one has CAN built in http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/39977f.pdf
But as I said, I need it to also have ethernet and it looks like this one has ethernet built in http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/39762f.pdf
But I couldn't find any that have both built in, so I was thinking about buying one of the above and then adding the other technology to it. It seems that it would be easier to add ethernet to the existing CAN controller, but I'm still not sure how I would go about doing that.
It seems like the lantronix xport would be a good choice to do this (?), but I'm pretty new to this so I'm not sure.
For the xport, I just have to make it communicate to the PIC controller over serial right?
How feasible do you think adding on the xport to the CAN built in controller would be?
Bookmarks