Solutions to Improve the Features of Local Interconnected Networks

Abstract

The Local Interconnected Network (LIN) is cheap - being short and low-speed - but very practical for many appliances. Its architecture has a single Master and multiple Slaves for connecting sensors and actuators in automotive applications. The use of LIN can be extended to other industrial applications having similar non-critical requirements - as the automotive systems do. This paper is proposing solutions to improve some features of LIN, in order to extend this applicative area. The characteristics improved are the cable length and the number of network nodes, by three solutions developed and presented in detail.