Magnus Hell, Christian Schlegel and Holger Zeltwanger re-elected to CiA board of directors

At the General Assembly of the CAN in Automation (CiA) nonprofit association, which took place during the two-day CiA Member Days event in Freising, Germany, the active board of directors was confirmed, including Magnus Hell (Infineon), Christian Schlegel (chs consulting) and Holger Zeltwanger (CiA managing director). Robert Bosch, esd electronics, emotas, MicroControl and Texas Instruments were elected as the technical committee, chaired by Hell. ESD electronics, emotas embedded communication, MicroControl, Texas Instruments and Vector have voting rights in the business committee, chaired by Schlegel.

The technical presentations at the CiA Member Days event included such topics as CAN and artificial intelligence, CAN XL, CANsec, Ethernetification of CAN and 48-V supply systems. Presentation slides are available for CiA members to download from the website.

Next year's General Assembly will take place on March 5 in Tutzing on Lake Starnberg, Germany, as part of the 19th international CAN Conference (iCC). This date also marks the 35th anniversary of the international CAN user association, which currently has more than 700 members. The controller area network (CAN) serial communications system was first introduced in February 1986 and has around 4 billion newly installed nodes per year.