Oznog
Active Member
I was looking at maybe setting up a LIN bus between a few PIC controllers located some distance apart. Otherwise I was thinking CAN bus, but the 1-wire aspect of LIN looks interesting. CAN tranceivers are also somewhat expensive and only come on the more advanced/expensive PICs.
However I tried to look through Digikey and Mouser and found only a couple of LIN transceivers. Did I mess up the search term (LIN,LINbus,LIN-bus?) or are there just really slim pickins for this type of tranceiver? Or is there some general purpose part/schematic to make your own LIN tranceiver, making special purpose LIN tranceivers unnecessary?
However I tried to look through Digikey and Mouser and found only a couple of LIN transceivers. Did I mess up the search term (LIN,LINbus,LIN-bus?) or are there just really slim pickins for this type of tranceiver? Or is there some general purpose part/schematic to make your own LIN tranceiver, making special purpose LIN tranceivers unnecessary?