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, ...

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 ...