The ever-increasing importance of electronics in automobiles brings with it a growing challenge and need for low-cost, reliable electronic systems and subsystems such as sensors and actuators. These ...

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 ...

The local interconnection network (LIN) standard is the first to address Class A open-multiplexing protocols within vehicles. It defines a low cost, serial communication system for distributed ...

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 ...

The AMIS-40615 and AMIS-40616 bring together LIN transceiver and voltage regulator functionality in a single low-power mixed-signal chip. The 3.3- and 5.0-V devices interface between a LIN protocol ...