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 Interconnect Network (LIN) protocol specification provides a low-cost, short-distance, and low-speed network, enabling the implementation of a new level of ...

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, ...