Low-Cost Local Interconnect Network (LIN)

Low-Cost Local Interconnect Network (LIN) systems are used throughout automobiles in comfort, powertrain, sensor, and actuator applications.

The modular Microchip LIN family ranges from simple transceiver Integrated Circuits (ICs) to complex system basis chips with LIN transceiver, voltage regulator, and watchdog. At higher integration levels, the Microchip System-in-Package (SiP) solutions feature an AVR^®, an Arm^® Cortex^® M0+ microcontroller or PIC^® microcontroller, LIN transceiver, voltage regulator, and watchdog in a single package.

Topics

• LIN Overview
• LIN Protocol
  • Physical Layer
  • Data Link Layer
  • Application layer: LIN Description File (LDF)