Talk:Local Interconnect Network

please improve
The OpenHardware link is dead. https://archive.org/stream/OpenHardwareJournal/journal-2012-02-OpenHardwareJournal_2012_02_djvu.txt has the content, code is here: https://github.com/gandrewstone/undefined — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.170.229.66 (talk) 21:38, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Why is this page about LIN so hard to read and badly formed? There's no captions or anything.

This should be cleaned.


 * It appears to have been cut and pasted from various documents, probably all copyrighted. KarlWK (talk) 12:33, 7 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree, this page is rubbish. It isn't useful at all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.110.250.74 (talk) 00:00, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

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Correct link to Specification
This article seems to be vaguely based on the protocol specification. I have put in reference number 2 a link to where it is possible to buy this document, entitled LIN Specification Package Rev. 2.1. I agree that this article is badly oranised and probably also mostly wrong. I have just started working with LIN, so I have full access to the spec and I am going to update the page as I get to know the protocol. The specification is very clear and very well detailed, so it should be no problem to write a sumary on wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.55.10.201 (talk) 15:36, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

number of slaves
A recent edit changed "16 nodes (one master and typically up to 15 slaves)" to "17 nodes (one master and typically up to 16 slaves)". While I've seen a few popular articles that do say that LIN supports "up to 16 slave nodes", I'm changing this article back to "up to 15 slave nodes" because:
 * The app notes I've found say LIN supports "up to 15 slave nodes"
 * (original research) After reading of the "Atmel AVR308: Software LIN Slave" app note, my understanding is that in LIN 1.0 only 1 node is allowed to transmit at a time. Since there are only 4 identifier bits in the identifier byte used to tell the slave nodes which one should transmit next (or to tell all of them to listen for the master to transmit data), that seems to imply at most 2^4 = 16 nodes (including the master node, indicated by the reserved identifier byte "0x80"), therefore up to 15 slave nodes.

I'm willing to believe that other implementations or later revisions of the LIN specification support more than 15 slaves, but please cite references. --DavidCary (talk) 16:23, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

In any case this should be consistent with the Overview section that currently reefers to up to 16 slaves. —Antonin Rousset (talk) 17:52, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

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