VN5640

The Vector VN5640 is a network interface for automotive Ethernet and CAN. It offers 16 Ethernet ports - twelve automotive 100BASE-T1 (OPEN Alliance BroadR-Reach) ports and four standard 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX/1000BASE-T ports - plus two CAN/CAN FD channels and an IO connector with analog and digital inputs and outputs.

It monitors and logs Ethernet streams and CAN events with low latency and high-resolution time stamps, and supports simple bus analysis, complex remaining bus simulation, diagnostics and calibration with CANoe/CANalyzer .Ethernet or CANape. An integrated layer-2 switch, hardware filters and load generators help with large simulations. Devices can be time-synchronised by software, by a hardware sync line or by IEEE 1588 (PTP), and the unit can also run stand-alone, for example as a media converter or for port mirroring.

A variant with the 1000BASE-T1 interface option replaces six of the automotive ports with 100BASE-T1/1000BASE-T1 ports on ix Industrial connectors. The host connection is USB 3.0 or Gigabit Ethernet; the unit is set up with the Vector Hardware Manager and drivers come with the Vector Driver Setup.

Vector Japan announced in May 2021 that sales of the VN5640 would end once stock was gone, naming the VN5620, VN5430, VN5650 and VN5240 as successors.