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 ...

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 ...

ON Semiconductor has introduced a CAN transceiver, three LIN transceivers, and ESD/EMI protector chips for both buses. The NCV7356 single-wire CAN transceiver meets the GMW 3089 2.3 specification and ...