Communication network for transmission of messages
The communication network for transmission of messages at different transmission rates comprises a bus line ( 10 ) and a plurality of bus participants ( 14, 16 ) each of which includes a bus transceiver ( 22 ) connected to the bus line ( 10 ) and a control unit ( 18 ) coupled with said bus transceiver, inter alia, for converting messages received via the bus line ( 10 ) and for generating messages to be sent via the bus line ( 10 ), wherein each message includes control data and payload. The messages include first messages whose payload is transmitted via the bus line ( 10 ) at a first rate and second messages whose payload is transmitted via the bus line ( 10 ) at a second rate which is higher than the first rate, wherein the control data of each message contain a coding representing the transmission rate of the payload of the respective message. The bus participants ( 14, 16 ) include first bus participants ( 14 ) which can exclusively process a first payload and second bus participants ( 16 ) which can process both first and second messages, wherein the bus transceiver ( 22 ) of each first bus participant, upon detection of the coding indicating the second payload transmission rate when receiving a second message, substitutes the payload of this second message by a substitute payload and transmits this substitute payload at the first rate to the control unit ( 18 ).
1. A communication network for transmission of messages at different transmission rates, comprising
a bus line, and
a plurality of bus participants each of which includes a bus transceiver connected to the bus line and a control unit coupled with said bus transceiver, inter alia, for converting messages received via the bus line and for generating messages to be sent via the bus line,
wherein each message includes control data and payload,
wherein the messages include first messages whose payload is transmitted via the bus line at a first rate and second messages whose payload is transmitted via the bus line at a second rate which is higher than the first rate, wherein the first messages are controller area network (CAN) messages and the second messages are CAN with flexible data rate (CAN-FD) messages,
wherein the control data of each message contain a coding representing the transmission rate of the payload of the respective message,
wherein the bus participants include first bus participants which can exclusively receive and process a first payload at the first rate and second bus participants which can receive and process both the first and second messages,
wherein the bus line includes a first and a second bus line section, the first and second bus line sections being distinct from and external to the bus participants,
wherein the first bus participants are connected to the first bus line section and the second bus participants are connected to the second bus line section,
wherein first messages are adapted to be transmitted both within the first bus line section and within the second bus line section and second messages are adapted to be transmitted exclusively within the second bus line section, and
wherein the two bus line sections are coupled with each other by means of a unidirectional transmission filter for allowing for a transmission of first messages from the first bus line section to the second bus line section and for preventing the transmission of second messages from the second bus line section to the first bus line section, the unidirectional transmission filter arranged between the bus transceivers of the bus participants, and
wherein a substitute payload used by the transmission filter is adapted to be changed by a write data access via the bus line and thus influences or determines the control at least one of the bus transceivers of the first bus participants and the first bus participants connected to the first bus line section, wherein the prevention of the transmission of a second message from the second bus line section to the first bus line section means the prevention of the transmission of a second message to the first bus line section at the second rate or comprises such a type of prevention, wherein the unidirectional transmission filter, upon detection of a coding indicating the second payload transmission rate when receiving a second message, substitutes the payload of the second data by a substitute payload and transmits this payload at the first rate to the first bus line section.