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 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 ...

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 ...

The MLX80001 is a 4 channel physical layer device for applications of low speed vehicle serial data network communication using the Local Interconnect Network (LIN) protocol. The device is designed in ...