OBD-II ELM327 compatible AllPro adapter using PIC18F2455

Overview

This adapter allows you to interface with your car’s OBD-II bus. It provides you a USB interface using the ELM327 command set and supports all major OBD-II standards:

SAE J1850 PWM
SAE J1850 VPW
ISO 9141-2
ISO 14230-4
ISO 15765-4 CAN

Hardware

The adapter kit schematic is shown here. It is built around NXP LPC1517 Cortex-M3 microprocessor with 64 kB program memory, but can accommodate another chip from same family like LPC1549 with 256 kB if required. The NXP chips has a ROM-based bootloader that supports loading a binary image into its flash memory using USART or CAN. All the software is written in C++ for NXP LPCXpresso IDE which is essentially using GNU toolchain for ARM Cortex-M processors. However, it can be compiled with other pre-built GNU toolchain, like GCC ARM Embedded or even with Keil uVision IDE.

The Highlights

NXP LPC1517JDB48 ARM Cortex M3 72Mhz processor
64kB Flash, 12kB RAM
Using NXP sophisticated State Configurable Timers to do the precise signal handling for J1850 PWM and VPW protocols
CAN FIFO buffers for handling some not-strict ISO-compliant ECUs
Botloader for initial firmware programming
Low power consumption

See building the adapter firmware from the source code. Or, if you just want to program the firmware check the programming the Adapter with Flash Magic. Also, you might consider ELM329 AllPro adapter. It is year 2018 and most likely you need only CAN protocol.

Adapter firmware:

AllPro Github repository
allpro-hex.zip — the prebuilt firmware

The software and other materials in allpro-src.zip is released under GPLv3. If you want to reuse the source code in your commercial products, contact me for a commercial license.

The printed circuit board data are available separately:

allpro-mfgr-data.zip — Gerbers, drill files

The OBD-II Cable Connector

The adapter uses eight pin connector to link up to vehicle’s OBD-II J1962.

J4	Description	J1962 Pin
1	Signal Ground	5
2	CAN High	6
3	CAN Low	14
4	J1850 Bus +	2
5	Vehicle Battery Positive	16
7	K Line	7
8	J1850 Bus –	10

Bluetooth AllPro

Bluetooth version of AllPro adapter is ready-to-use fitted to “de-facto” standard OBD connector case and paired with SPC-CA v3.0 Bluetooth module based on Beken BK3231 chip. Apparently Beken bought the license for old ARM9E-S core with a substantial discount for their Bluetooth SOC. The core goes back to year 2004. You will need a debugger to program the device though.