VN5610

The Vector VN5610 is a compact USB network interface for automotive Ethernet and CAN. It gives a PC two Ethernet ports - usable either as two RJ45 ports for 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX and 1000BASE-T, or as two BroadR-Reach ports on one D-SUB9 connector - and two CAN/CAN FD channels on a second D-SUB9.

It monitors and logs Ethernet streams and CAN events with low latency and high-resolution time stamps (8 ns resolution), for bus analysis, remaining bus simulation, diagnostics and calibration with CANoe or CANalyzer with the Ethernet option. Several Vector interfaces can be time-synchronised by software, by hardware sync line or by IEEE 1588. Configured in advance, it can also work stand-alone, for example as a media converter or for port mirroring.

At 100 Mbit/s it can run from USB bus power; for gigabit or mixed configurations an external 6-50 V supply through one of its two Binder power/sync connectors is recommended. The later VN5610A, documented in the same Vector manual, adds 100BASE-T1 support and a digital input/output (e.g. for a DoIP activation line). Vector no longer lists the VN5610 in its current range, and Vector Japan announced the end of sale of the VN5610A in 2021, naming the VN5620, VN5430, VN5650 and VN5240 as successors.