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, ...

Cypress has released a kit that enables designers to evaluate the Controller Area Network (CAN) and Local Interconnect Network (LIN) slave communication capability of Cypress’s PSoC programmable ...

The LIN is a soft core of the Local Interconnect Network (LIN). This interface is a serial communication protocol, designed primarily to be used in au ...