In the late 1990s, five car makers, a communications tools manufacturer, and what is now Freescale Semiconductor founded the LIN Consortium to develop a low-cost automotive communications standard.

As stated in the previous installment, LIN slaves can use a timer input capture channel for reception and a general purpose output pin for the transmit channel. Two Freescale LIN application notes, ...

The Local Interconnect Network (LIN) protocol specification provides a low-cost, short-distance, and low-speed network, enabling the implementation of a new level of electronics intelligence in ...

A car is a rolling pile of hundreds of microcontrollers these days — just ask any greybeard mechanic and he’ll start his “carburetor” rant. All of these systems and sub-systems need to talk to each ...

The local interconnect network, or LIN, gives auto designers a low-cost way to add new features to today's vehicles. The controller-area network (CAN) has emerged as the standard high-speed bus or ...

True Plug & Play functionality can be difficult to achieve for automotive LIN networks. This article describes a new LIN slave definition methodology which preserves the benefits of LIN as a low-cost ...