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 ...

Check out LIN and I2C for low speed networking needs. They are often better alternatives than SPI or CAN for many applications. The serial peripheral interface (SPI) and universal asynchronous ...

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.

The UART, or universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter, is one of the most used device-to-device communication protocols. This article shows how to use a UART as a hardware communication protocol by ...

Local Interconnect Network (LIN) automotive bus systems are mainly placed in the body domain and we experience a constantly increasing number of nodes in the car. This article introduces the concept ...

The K3 triggering and decoding option developed by Rohde & Schwarz for its RTM series allows CAN and LIN signals to be viewed at the protocol layer. Munich, Germany: The K3 triggering and decoding ...

LIN (local-interconnect network) challenges CAN (controller-area network) for lowest cost in noncritical applications. Version 2.0 introduces new plug-and-play capability but costs memory. Vendors ...