panda

Welcome to panda

panda speaks CAN and CAN FD, and it runs on the STM32H725.

Directory structure

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├── board           # Code that runs on the STM32
├── python          # Python userspace library for interfacing with the panda
├── tests           # Tests for panda
├── scripts         # Miscellaneous used for panda development and debugging
├── examples        # Example scripts for using a panda in a car

Safety Model

panda is compiled with vehicle-specific safety logic provided by opendbc. See details about the car safety models, safety testing, and code rigor in that repository.

Code Rigor

The panda firmware is written for its use in conjunction with openpilot. The panda firmware, through its safety model, provides and enforces the openpilot safety. Due to its critical function, it's important that the application code rigor within the board folder is held to high standards.

These are the CI regression tests we have in place:

• A generic static code analysis is performed by cppcheck.
• In addition, cppcheck has a specific addon to check for MISRA C:2012 violations. See current coverage.
• Compiler options are strict: the flags -Wall -Wextra -Wstrict-prototypes -Werror are enforced.
• The safety logic is tested and verified by unit tests for each supported car variant to ensure that the behavior remains unchanged.
• A hardware-in-the-loop test verifies panda's functionalities on all active panda variants, including:
  • additional safety model checks
  • compiling and flashing the bootstub and app code
  • receiving, sending, and forwarding CAN messages on all buses
  • CAN loopback and latency tests through SPI

The above tests are themselves tested by:

• a mutation test on the MISRA coverage
• a mutation test on the vehicle-specific safety logic

Usage

git clone https://github.com/commaai/panda.git
cd panda

# setup your environment
./setup.sh

# build fw + run the tests
./test.sh

See the Panda class for how to interact with the panda.

For example, to receive CAN messages:

>>> from panda import Panda
>>> panda = Panda()
>>> panda.can_recv()

And to send one on bus 0:

>>> from opendbc.car.structs import CarParams
>>> panda.set_safety_mode(CarParams.SafetyModel.allOutput)
>>> panda.can_send(0x1aa, b'message', 0)

Note that you may have to setup udev rules for Linux, such as

sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/11-panda.rules <<EOF
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0483", ATTRS{idProduct}=="df11", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="3801", ATTRS{idProduct}=="ddcc", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="3801", ATTRS{idProduct}=="ddee", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="bbaa", ATTRS{idProduct}=="ddcc", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="bbaa", ATTRS{idProduct}=="ddee", MODE="0666"
EOF
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && sudo udevadm trigger

Licensing

panda software is released under the MIT license unless otherwise specified.