Is CANopen the new IEEE 1073?
CAN has been around for some time, not as long as the Medical Information Buss (MIB) now known as IEEE 1073. CAN was developed to provide communications and control between safety-critical devices in a variety of industries. From the CAN website's page on medical devices:
As far back
as the early 1990s, the flexibility, robustness, reliability and
reasonable […]
