The LIN protocol is open..
See http://www.lin-subbus.de/


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From: "Brandon Fosdick" <bfoz@GLUE.UMD.EDU>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: networking


> Peter May wrote:
> > <snip>
>
> Have you thought about using CAN? I'm working on a similar project
> (network of pic's) that I was going to use 485 for. CAN handles all of
> the collision and retransmit in hardware, which is nice. The down side
> is that the CAN protocol doesn't assign an address to each node, instead
> it uses message types. It does however allow a node to request a
> particular type of message from other nodes, which would handle your
> polling requirement. Microchip has a few appnotes that explain it in
> better detail.
>
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