The PCA82C250 and PCA82C251 are advanced transceiver products for use in automotive and general industrial applications with transfer rates up to 1 Mbit/s. They support the differential bus signal representation being described in the international standard for in-vehicle CAN high-speed applications (ISO 11898). Controller Area Network (CAN) is a serial bus protocol being primarily intended for transmission of control related data between a number of bus nodes. This application note provides information how to use the above-mentioned transceiver products and discusses several topics of interest like slope control mode, stand-by mode, bus length and maximum number of bus nodes per network.