BTW, you know what one of the first classes I had to take as an electrical engineer? It was a class where we had to write assembly language code to run a stoplight. Anytime you deal directly with hardware you are going to have do something with assembly code if you want it to work better/faster than what the base code is doing. Unless you are making something for a very small market where you have no competition.

Also here is a post that has a zip file with some CAN code written in what looks like PICBASIC.
http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/show...00&postcount=7